Re: communication

David Dawes wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:39:45PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote:
[SNIP]
> I have no mechanism for maintaining the linux fbdev driver I've
> written within the context of the Linux kernel, so I provide it on
> my home page.  If I wanted to create a mailing list for it, I'd go
> to SourceForge.  Lots of Linux kernel sub-lists are hosted on
> SourceForge.  Does that make the work they do any less a part of
> the Linux kernel?

It already exists.  What about the fbdev sourceforge project 
that James Simmons heads up?  He is, after all, the defacto 
maintainer of the linux fbdev/fbcon drivers.  I haven't seen 
you on the list, perhaps you might join and submit patches 
there so that your changes can be merged into the fbdev bk 
tree before Linus pulls from it.  There are also technical 
discussions concerning the present and future of the core 
fbdev api.  This way you could avoid the possibility of 
breakage like what probably happened when Linus pulled the 
new set of changes from the fbdev repo 1 day after your 
intel patch went in.

Cheers,
Nicholas