Re: Leopard Sources?
Re: Leopard Sources?
- Subject: Re: Leopard Sources?
- From: Chuck Remes <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:14:19 -0500
On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:
My recollection of the number of kernel patches discussed on the
lists (darwin-dev, darwin-kernel and darwin-drivers) and submitted
the last several years is... near zero. I agree there is a lot of
irrational love for OSX by a lot of folks, but few of them are
kernel hackers. Most of the folks who love OSX love it for the GUI
and userland apps.
The number of people really interested in the UNIX pieces of OSX
couldn't even keep *one* darwin "distro" alive. Where's the love?
Anyway, way off topic for the list. I just had to add to the
noise... :-)
I can't resist at least one more comment.
If Andreas wants to add SCTP support to the kernel, I have a
proposal. When the leopard sources appear (in a few days, weeks or
months), do the hard work to create the KPI infrastructure you need
to support this protocol. Write the code, create tests if possible
along with a test harness (hard work for kernel code), plus
documentation and submit it to Apple as a patch. Publish this patch
far and wide, take feedback from other interested kernel hackers and
*maintain* the patch as new Leopard releases ship. Make it your
mission to get the patch accepted in 10.5.x or whatever the next
major release is in 20 months.
Don't wait for Apple to do this work for you (once you have the
sources). Do the work, create the patch and be its champion.
I think Apple folks would be surprised. Thus far the level of
"community" support for kernel patches barely rises above *apathy*.
Anyone who created a kernel patch and tried to support it this way
would probably garner some sub-rosa engineering support within Apple
simply because they'd be impressed with the effort.
cr
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