Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:07:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> It's an incredibble bandwidth waste for 99.99% of people downolading > 2.5.xx and it *is* making architectural changes in the kernel harder, > becouse the modularisatoin of the kernel isn't nearly as perfect as > you try to disguise it here. Please just have a look at the > consequences of the kdev_t changes, which where necessary since > already about 8 years. And then my these is somehow tautological if it > doesn't apply now, it will apply in about 4 years. At some point in > time there is the need to let some things go - the problem is more > fundamental.
it's not mandatory for the developer to push every interface change into every driver or every architecture. Sure, if some code has not been kept in sync for a long time then it should be zapped, but the pure fact that something is less often used should not make it a candidate for zapping.
Ingo
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