Re: which patches to review

David S. Miller
2002-04-26T01:04:42Z

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:32:29 -0400

One of GDB's overriding objectives it to get everything multi-arch. To
that end:

Post 5.0, every new architecture has to be mult-arched
Post 5.1, every addition to an existing architecture has to be mult-arch
enabled

As acceptence criteria, they are simple and transparent. I don't think
me stiching up some sort of cosy deal where you were some how excempted
from this would go down very well :-)

I think that is an unreasonable requirement and it will serve often to
deter new contributors. Because they will come here trying to
contribute support for a new platform, and they will do so on the
evaluation that they have the time to merge just that addition.
This means they think they have time to submit the addition and tweak
a thing or two to make the patch acceptable.

Unlike me, they won't have weeks upon weeks of spare time available to
multiarch the cpu target in question.

I believe this was a bad decision and it is not the only way the GDB
team could have obtained their goal of getting things multi-arched.