Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272301AbTGYUbG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:31:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272306AbTGYUbG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:31:06 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:23057 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272301AbTGYUbE (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:31:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:46:13 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Ihar Philips Filipau Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: OT: Vanilla not for embedded?! Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()? Message-ID: <20030725204613.GB1686@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ihar Philips Filipau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F214EC3.9010804@softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F214EC3.9010804@softhome.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 25 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:37:39PM +0200, Ihar Philips Filipau wrote: > P.S. Offtopic. As I see it Linux & Linus have made the decision of > optimization. Linux after all is capitalismus creation: who has more > money do control everything. Server market has more money - they do more > work on kernel and they systems are not that far from developers' > workstations - so Linux gets more and more server/workstation oriented. > This will fit desktop market too - if your computer was made to run > WinXP AKA exp(bloat) - it will be capable to run any OS. Linus repeating > 'small is beatiful' sounds more and more like crude joke... > As for embedded market - it is already in deep fork and far far away > from vanilla kernels... Vanilla really not that relevant to real world... Vanilla will be what people put into it. And I have seen more messages from embedded people complaining, than actually doing and submitting patches for merging. So the embedded trees are a deep fork huh? Did you or anyone else do anything to merge during 2.5?! And now you see why there is a "deep" fork... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/