From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262337AbUEQTTP (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:19:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262351AbUEQTTO (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:19:14 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:28167 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262337AbUEQTTM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:19:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:19:10 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Tim Bird Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft Message-ID: <20040517201910.A1932@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Tim Bird , linux kernel References: <40A90D00.7000005@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <40A90D00.7000005@am.sony.com>; from tim.bird@am.sony.com on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > I am writing to announce the availability of the first draft of > the CE Linux Forum's first specification. This specification > represents the efforts of six different technical working groups > over about the last 9 months. If you want my 2Cent: - stop these rather useless specifications and provide patchkits instead - try to actually submit the patches upstream to get a feeling which of your 'features' are compltely hopeless, which are okay and which can better be solved in different ways. (same applies to CGL/DCL/$INDUSTRYCONSORTIUM)