[Ksummit-2011-discuss] My topic suggestions

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Thu Jun 30 17:34:51 PDT 2011


On Friday, July 01, 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:22:26AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, July 01, 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:52:27AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Friday, July 01, 2011, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd like to talk at the KS about the tracking of regressions (show some trends
> > > > > > etc., as usual), the kernel Bugzilla (again), which is somewhat related to the
> > > > > > tracking of regressions and I'd like to discuss the patch review aspect of the
> > > > > > development process (in short, in my opinion we need more patch review and
> > > > > > there are areas with only a few people who can seriously review patches and
> > > > > > don't really have the time), basically whether or not it can be improved.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, I think it would be worth doing a kind of Power Management summit
> > > > > > on the first day, where kernel developers working on PM could discuss things,
> > > > > > share some ideas etc. (there will be a PM miniconf at the LPC, but I'm afraid
> > > > > > some KS attendees interested in PM won't be there).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Would it be valuable to extend this to Power Management + Device Model
> > > > > summit?  There are a number of issues related to device probe order
> > > > > and dependencies that I think go hand in hand with PM.
> > > > 
> > > > That would be fine by me, I wonder what Greg thinks of it, though.
> > > 
> > > /me wakes up.
> > > 
> > > Um, sure, I'll be there, but it seems pretty silly to call it a "Device
> > > Model" summit, right?
> > 
> > Well, the name is to be decided I guess, but the question is whether or not it
> > makes sense to discuss driver model and power management issues in the same
> > group of developers.  I think it kind of does.
> 
> I agree it does as well.

So why don't we call it Driver Core Summit, for example?


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