From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262837AbUEQT7f (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:59:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262866AbUEQT7f (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:59:35 -0400 Received: from mail1.fw-sj.sony.com ([160.33.82.68]:5811 "EHLO mail1.fw-sj.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262837AbUEQT7c (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <40A919B7.5050305@am.sony.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:59:51 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux kernel Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft References: <40A90D00.7000005@am.sony.com> <20040517201910.A1932@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040517201910.A1932@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Thanks. I strongly agree with you. I hope that the specifications are not completely useless. Hopefully they are good to provide context, rationale, etc. However, sending patches upstream is far superior, and I hope to be able to start sending a stream of them, based on this work, very soon. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com =============================