Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:06:33 +1000 | From | Andrew Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > To maintain the "forwarders" sounds like as much (if not more) work than > > just fixing the errant modules in the first place. Plus you loose the > > flexibility of changing data structures and functions which are inlined and > > just #included, which is exactly the advantage Linus was talking about. > > Guys!!!!! > > Well, let's just wait until the monolithic kernel is 500MB in size and > requires 8GB of ram to load (or alternately the .config file requies an > 8GB disk to hold it when you build Linux). > > What I am hearing are no technical arguments, just "control, control, > control ...".
"forwarders" puts the problem (out of date drivers) out of sight, and out of mind. So, we'll end up with 10000 out of date drivers, and no-one will care enough to fix it.
Having things fail to compile is good encouragement to fix drivers ;-)
Andrew Clausen
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