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Keynote: Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) - "I Don't Want Your Code"

Linaro On Air · Views pending · 2013-03-07 · 33:36

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Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linaro keynote on contributing to the Linux kernel, explaining why maintainers prefer upstreamed code and how they view contributions.

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Cited in discussions of maintainer burden and why companies benefit from upstreaming drivers, as an explanation straight from a lead kernel maintainer.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2017–2023

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matheusmoreira · 2023-12 · Reference

Because it leads to straight up better products and companies that don't upstream the drivers get outcompeted by the ones that do. Greg Kroah-Hartman explains it: [VIDEO]

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jamespwilliams · 2023-09 · Reference

[VIDEO] for a video version of this talk One funny bit about the talk, which isn’t mentioned in the slides, is that he actually gave the talk at Linaro (the very same company who were called out in the slides as a case study of submitting a particularly bad set of patches)

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matheusmoreira · 2023-03 · Reference

Because then consumers get hardware that works out of the box on Linux. That's how good corporations contribute. [VIDEO]

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