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linux speedboat effect
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Refers to the problem of getting your patches into the Linux kernel at the
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right time, otherwise maintainers may have little interest and it becomes
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increasingly difficult to forward port to mainline.
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"Even when vendors actually release the corresponding source code and
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don't drop in binary blobs, due to the phenomenon I call 'the Linux
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speedboat', if they've forked an old kernel and done things their way, and if
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someone doesn't get on the case immediately, there's the unenviable task of
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forward-porting that code to whatever it is that the Linux kernel developers
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happen to like today. If the vendor didn't manage to throw their code aboard
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the speedboat at the right time, everyone is left floating in the wake."
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-- Paul Boddie
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