Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 22:06:12 +0100 (BST) |
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> Not to tell that I never had access to any IEEE or POSIX specs. Not to > tell that I never had access to the sources of his unix. > > It would be nice if he could tell me what is not been well designed in > Linux so I could start working to fix it.
The SCSI midlayer is the most obvious one. The Sangoma drivers could do with a diet, the floppy driver seems to be horribly bloated for what is does - tho that might be partly the hardware's fault.
I think there are quite a few driver candidates and some non driver ones - lack of page colouring, the DMA memory issue, the amount of work done when picking pages to swap. None of these last ones are trivial items though.
Alan
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