Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751158AbVJCAEs (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:04:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751160AbVJCAEs (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:04:48 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:18578 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158AbVJCAEr (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:04:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:04:51 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <54300000.1128297891@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20051002230545.GI6290@lkcl.net> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <20051002230545.GI6290@lkcl.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 32 --Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote (on Monday, October 03, 2005 00:05:45 +0100): > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 05:05:42PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> > and, what is the linux kernel? >> > >> > it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on >> > single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_ >> > outdated, really soon. >> >> Linux already has a number of scalable SMP synchronisation >> mechanisms. > > ... and you are tied in to the decisions made by the linux kernel > developers. Yes. As are the rest of us. So if you want to implement something different, that's your perogative. So feel free to go do it somewhere else, and quit whining on this list. We are not your implementation bitches. If you think it's such a great idea, do it yourself. M. - 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/