linux-kernel - Re: Question about Reiser4

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704230640540.25153@server.thyself>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:42:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:	William Heimbigner <icxcnika@....tar.cc>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
cc:	Eric Hopper <hopper@...ifarious.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4


On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> William Heimbigner wrote:
>
>>  If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding
>>  standards", would it be included in the kernel?
>
> While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills
> these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4 seems to have
> enough user interest) usually gets accepted.
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge has some hints.

So in conclusion / to answer Eric's question,
1) reiser4 needs a maintainer
2) reiser4 needs the code quality cleaned up
3) Until those two things happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will be 
included in the kernel.

Correct?
William Heimbigner
icxcnika@....tar.cc


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