Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:20:27 +0100 | From | Jarek Poplawski <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular |
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Adrian Bunk wrote, On 11/27/2007 11:53 PM:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... > Most Google hits are about abortion. > > The fact that people use this term in some completely different > context does not give it the meaning you implied it had. > > Oh, and this right of choice also does not exist in Poland...
Anyway, your later arguments could suggest you've understood,
what I've meant. And maybe abortion isn't bad association here...
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> As one of the most active code removers in the kernel [1], I can tell > you what actually happens in practice:
... > It's always surprising how many people complain when you deprecate or
> remove a choice B that choice A wouldn't work for them, and who had > never reported their problems before since choice B worked for them...
Of course, all these choices should be reasonably limited, so the opinions of users and maintainers should be always considered.
But, I was rather against something else: removing some maybe not very popular, but still not buggy options, only to save a few kilobytes or maintainers' time.
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/
My congratulations! Of course, removing is something necessary, but I wish
you many problems! (== many users)
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