On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:14 -0400, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > As far as I see it, we'll at least get listened to by Con, Ingo and > Andrew Morton. I've had a long discussion with Con recently and from his > point of view, the problem is that not enough people ask (loud enough) > for such features. For instance, I'm still the first and only user of > his real-time patch.
I think many of the kernel developers have fallen into the trap of only listening to the distros on the assumption that if enough users want something that they'll hear from RedHat or SuSE. Clearly this is necessary to some extent, as the distros have to filter out the actionable bug reports, etc., and works for 99% of what users want, but the other 1% who use a specialized distro that does not have kernel hackers on the payroll have a hard time getting heard. But they will listen if people make enough noise on the mailing list. Lee
