Subject: Re: Try again, itojun, patches need more work.
To: Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/30/2003 08:59:51 
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 11:36  PM, Darren Reed wrote:

> And I should care about code divergence .... because ?

...for the same reason that I care about feeding changes to the 
toolchain back to the master FSF sources.

The more divergent you are from the original 3rd party sources, the 
more difficult it is to bring in improvements from later releases made 
by that 3rd party.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>