Theodore Ts'o wrote on Sunday, 03rd November 2013: > It's an idea that people have tossed around before, but utltimately, > it's far more work than it's worth, and it's a maintenance nightmare. > For most non-technical users, using a distro kernel is quite good > enough.
Yes, I get it. Thanks for the honesty. > > I’m sorry, but I cannot possibly do this all by myself. I was able > > to help in some Wikis and in Smolt, but I cannot setup such a > > system. Apparently I was only able to come up with the idea... > > If you told me that you wanted to try it, I would tell you that you > were going to be getting into a huge amount of work, and it's not > obvious to me that it's worth it --- but if you are going to volunteer > your own time, then it's ultimately up to you. But having you trying > to volunteer *other* people's time for what might be a sisyphean does > take a fair amount of chutzpah. I don’t want other people to volunteer, I was expressing an idea, but – after reading your answer – I do understand that the gain is not worth the effort. At least now I know what you (the people making Linux) think about it. I was trying to off-load some workload from you (developers) to power-users. I consider myself to be good enough to compile a kernel by myself, and to install Gentoo for that matter, and I’m also willing to volunteer some of my spare time to help other people who run Linux. I wrote some Wiki entries on how to install Linux on a specific machine and how to get things to run. I found that most of the times a new kernel was required due to some devices requireing a staging driver or a deactivated feature of a driver. However, my possibilities are limited. As I wrote before, I tried some tools (written by others!) that unfortunately didn’t work out, like Smolt. So I’ll let go of that idea. I’m certainly glad to have proposed it, but I get it that it isn’t worth it. I don’t think it has anything to do with chutzpah though, since the posting was motivated by me being eager to help where I can, not where I cannot. (Although I do understand it may look different.) Thanks! -- 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/
