On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that the discussion went off from "you stupid kernel developers *lol*. i get that summary ["you said people were stupid!!!"] a lot. i don't quite understand where it comes from, otherwise i would stop doing it :) > adopted DeviceTree without even asking a closed company about their > proprietary solution, which does the same" to something a bit more > constructive, let me point some of the benefits. > [snip...] ahh, magic. these have gone straight into that proposal. i think the best ones - the gems - are the test-coverage and formally allowing public interaction. the test coverage because it will reduce the risk of errors in the silicon [you never know when developing both hardware and software where the bug might be] as well as reduce the development time and development costs. the public interaction (which i was going to ask thomas and maxime about, this morning) because it means a much faster feedback loop. i've been trying to think of ways to link "if you do X it will result in more sales and reduce risk" to the discussion, and i think you finally hit it tomasz, so thank you. l. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
