Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements | Date | Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:39:44 +0200 |
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On Saturday 11 October 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> Sorry, but I just have to ask 'why'? IDE is seeing a whole lot of churn > >> for something that should essentially be a stable code base in > >> maintenance mode, and now scalability improvements? > > > > It is the stable code but being in "maintenance only mode" has never > > been true and as long as there are active users & developers there is > > really no reason to change it. > > Are there really many active users at this point? I'm not aware of any > new distributions that are using it. The only people I can see that > might still want to be using it would be people with old setups or old > embedded devices.. many of those wouldn't be using newer kernels anyway.
Like I said before: as long as there are any active users/developers there is no real reason to stop IDE improvements (especially since there is no complete replacement available).
I also wouldn't worry that much about what some distros are doing. They are free to make their own decisions based on whatever criteria they like.
> These kinds of changes only will really help scalability on multi-core > machines which are unlikely to be using this code anyway.. They seem
From my perspective the main gain of these patches is the increased maintainability and sanity of the code, scalability improvements are just an added bonus.
> rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me..
Please refrain from such comments. Not only the metaphor is completely bogus but it may sound disrespectful to some IDE developers.
Thanks, Bart
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