linux-kernel - Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:35:55 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Cc:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	david@...g.hm, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arve@...roid.com,
	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, pavel@....cz, florian@...kler.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, stern@...land.harvard.edu, peterz@...radead.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, menage@...gle.com, david-b@...bell.net,
	James.Bottomley@...e.de, arjan@...radead.org, swmike@....pp.se,
	galibert@...ox.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

> Why do people care that "android is forking the kernel"?

A lot of us don't. That's what the GPL is about. It's a big pain if you
start splitting it off into two entire things long term - because
your maintenance grows harder exponentially but parallel forks are common
- SuSE and RHEL Enterprise type editions are forks for example.

As far as I can tell it all comes from one or two people with a big PR
presence and almost no code in the kernel saying silly things years ago
which the IT press see as a good way to create a 'we need a column, bash
someone' story.

"What the junk press think" is a common but broken way to run national
policy in some countries, and its just as broken for the kernel.

Alan
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