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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:59:41 -0700
From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:32:48PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > Sure.  But Linus saing that he doesn't want more of that (shit, crap,
> > > I don't rember what he said exactly) in the kernel is a very good reason
> > > for thinking a little more aboyt it.
> > 
> > No. Linus is not a God, Linus is fallible, regularly makes mistakes and
> > frequently opens his mouth and says stupid things when he is far too busy.
> 
> People may remember Linus saying a resolute no to SMP
> support in Linux ;)

And perhaps he was right!

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