Putting the "codingstyle" control aside, often it's because things look too hackish.
Also sometimes the authors know it's hackish, or just don't expect it to be generally useful to the world. I happen to own an out-of-tree filesystem which I have little desire to have reviewed for mainline: only a dozen people use it at most, and I know it would get pinged mercilessly for using buffer heads and general insanity if it ever made it past "use FUSE instead" (which would admittedly be a perfectly fine response). It works though, so I keep it up to date with the VFS changes. I do have some interest in working on various device drivers, though. Greg, assuming this somehow kicks off some avalanche of specs, will there be a ML for hooking up driver writers with specs and willing users? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/