Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

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.

I should point out that some of the features specified have already been
submitted as patchsets.  Some were accepted and are in 2.6.  Some were
rejected, and we are considering the feedback received...  (But, we're
still hopeful that in the long run, we can make certain things
acceptable for inclusion in the mainline tree.)

The submissions, so far, have come from member companies or individuals
rather than from the forum itself.

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com
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