Getting this into the linux kernel

[Karol Herbst]

Hi,

thanks you for improving the original tuxedo module.

Are you planning on upstreaming this module anytime to the linux kernel? Because I have some upstream commits in Linux, I might be able to help with that.

It would be nice to have something like that in the kernel tree, so that users don't have to deal with local installations and stuff.

[Arnoud Willemsen]

Sorry for the late reply. I've no experience with upstreaming into the kernel and haven't really had the time so far to find out how the process works. Also I'm not entirely sure about what happens after it gets into the kernel. I'm assuming there's a certain responsibility to keep it working with every release? In any case I'd appreciate any help with the process and the rules thereof :)

[Karol Herbst]

well every module needs a maintainer somewhat, but as long as there are no bug reports, nobody has to do anything. If the internal kernel API breaks, the author of the break has to fix up every module using this API.

So in short, as long as they are no problems, it is fine to do nothing. Also there are staging modules where something like that could be put in at first.

I think I will try to find some time and go over the code and check if some stuff might be changed or isn't as good as it should be :)