Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261373AbUJXFOb (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261374AbUJXFOa (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:14:30 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:53902 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261373AbUJXFO3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: <417B3A34.2060306@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:14:28 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Masover CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_T=F6rnqvist?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1 References: <20041023165712.GR26192@nysv.org> <417B1574.4090406@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: <417B1574.4090406@slaphack.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 17 David Masover wrote: > > Some people don't care about speed but need space. I'd leave them in on > general principle, even if no one wants them now. Software design is usually improved by identifying features that aren't worth much, and removing them from the interface and burying them where average users don't see them (or dumping them completely). Interface clutter has a cost. Hans - 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/