From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750766AbWG2JN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:13:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750790AbWG2JN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:13:57 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53685 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbWG2JN4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:13:56 -0400 Subject: Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion) From: Arjan van de Ven To: Hans Reiser Cc: David Masover , Linus Torvalds , "Horst H. von Brand" , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Theodore Tso , LKML , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <44CABB87.3050509@namesys.com> References: <200607281402.k6SE245v004715@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <44CA31D2.70203@slaphack.com> <44C9FB93.9040201@namesys.com> <44CA6905.4050002@slaphack.com> <44CA126C.7050403@namesys.com> <44CA8771.1040708@slaphack.com> <44CABB87.3050509@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:12:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1154164364.2903.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Most users not only cannot patch a kernel, they don't know what a patch > is. It most certainly does. obviously you can provide complete kernels, including precompiled ones. Most distros have a yum or apt or similar tool to suck down packages, it's trivial for users to add a site to that, so you could provide packages if you want and make it easy for them. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com