Re: My IXP425 binutils/gcc/glibc patches

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:51:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> >> I'm going to submit the following patches to mainstream
>> >> binutils/gcc/glibc, any comments?
>> >
>> >None other than wishing you the best of luck trying to reach any
>> >of the gcc people.
>> >
>> >This one has been in bugzilla for half a year (originally made for
>> >a big-endian IXP2400):
>> >
>> >	http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16350
>> 
>> Since the gcc people are very busy, you sometimes have to resubmit
>> patches several times before they are considered.
>
>I don't like this approach very much myself

Yet, it is the approach that works.  Even Mark Mitchell has to use it
from time to time and he is the head of the project.

>-- if they are so busy already, me bugging them about my big endian
>ARM-specific annoyance (I can't really call it a problem) that 99.99%
>of the gcc community doesn't care about isn't going to help the overall
>scalability of the project.

gcc people do care about gcc.  They do have their priorities, though.  They
usually need to be reminded about patches that are not mainstream and they
very frequently need to be reminded about patches which only show up in
bugzilla.

cgf

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