{"id":36,"date":"2008-04-11T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-08-06T19:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T03:14:48","slug":"lies-d-oh-forget-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/11\/lies-d-oh-forget-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, d&#8230; oh, forget it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the recent blog post &#8220;<a title=\"Cisco Set to Dominate Linux Market?\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.internetnews.com\/skerner\/2008\/04\/cisco-set-to-dominate-linux-ma.html\">Cisco Set to Dominate Linux Market?<\/a>&#8221; (which lwn.net also <a title=\"Cisco Set to Dominate Linux Market?\" href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/277600\/\">linked<\/a>), but the part that caught my eye was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/dev-news\/article.php\/3737761\/Who+Writes+Linux+There+Are+a+Lot+of+Unknowns.htm\">recent Linux Foundation study<\/a>, Cisco is already contributing to Linux and currently represents 0.5 percent of changes (<em>which is a good number<\/em>). I would expect that with the AXP in the market, Cisco&#8217;s contribution rate will go up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t work on AXP or anything related to ISRs, so I have no idea what those groups plan to do with respect to Linux, but it was somewhat amusing to see the <a title=\"Linux Kernel Development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linux-foundation.org\/publications\/linuxkerneldevelopment.php\">Linux Foundation report<\/a> cited to show how much work CIsco does on the kernel.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve seen this study cited to show what a kernel development powerhouse Cisco is.\u00a0 In the report, Cisco is credited with 442 commits to the kernel; however, more than 400 of of those commits are mine, and about 30 are Don Fry maintaining the pcnet32 net driver.\u00a0 So if you take away my work on InfiniBand\/RDMA, Cisco&#8217;s contributions to the Linux kernel are pretty minimal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I have much of a point except that I wish we really did have more than one or two isolated developers at Cisco really engaged with the upstream kernel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the recent blog post &#8220;Cisco Set to Dominate Linux Market?&#8221; (which lwn.net also linked), but the part that caught my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}