Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:46:13 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Ihar Philips Filipau <filia@softhome.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: OT: Vanilla not for embedded?! Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()?
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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...
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