Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:25:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! |
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On Thu, 1 May 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > One big problem I see is Linus wanting to merge all drivers regardless > of the quality.
That's not what I said.
What I said was that I think we get *better* quality by merging early.
In other words, you're turning the whole argument on its head, and incorrectly so.
I claim that you are the one that is arguing for *worse* quality, by arguing for a process that is KNOWN to tend to generate bad code (out-of-tree drivers) as opposed to one that tends to fix things over time (and note the "tends" in both cases - there are counter-examples, but the trend is so clear that anybody who disputes it would seem to be either blind or lying).
So here's my challenge: give me *one* reason to believe that quality improves more out-of-tree than it does in-tree, and then you'll have a point. But you'd better be able to explain the ton of historical data we have that proves otherwise.
Until you do that, your blathering is just that - total blathering. The process I advocate is the one that has historical data on its side. Yours is just a failed theory.
Linus
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