Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:36:50 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: include/linux/pcounter.h |
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > but the main and fundamental question still remains unanswered (more > > than 3 weeks after Andrew asked that question): why was this piece > > of general infrastructure merged via net.git and not submitted to > > lkml ever? The code touching -mm does _not_ count as "review". > > I already stated this was a mistake and it won't happen again in the > future.
sorry - that bit of the thread didnt seem to make it to lkml. I just saw this incomplete discussion with a denial and with no resolution.
And you did the right thing anyway by thinking in terms of a generic piece of infrastructure instead of hiding it away into say include/net/pcounter.h (which nobody could have objected against).
I sometimes think that the forced isolation of subsystems (rather strongly enforced both by -mm and by linux-next) and their hiding away on non-lkml lists will eventually hurt the core kernel because less and less people will be willing to go the trouble of doing proper cross-subsystem development. That results in duplicated or specialistic infrastructure, increased code size and longer term, ultimately less performance. (by the time we notice _that_ it will probably be too late to do anything about it)
Ingo
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