Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751161AbVJCAPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:15:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbVJCAPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:15:00 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:64975 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751161AbVJCAO7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:14:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:14:57 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: lkcl@lkcl.net, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-Id: <20051002171457.6bb13672.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <54300000.1128297891@[10.10.2.4]> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <20051002230545.GI6290@lkcl.net> <54300000.1128297891@[10.10.2.4]> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1359 Lines: 37 On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:04:51 -0700 Martin J. Bligh wrote: > --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 outdated, really soon.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. IOW, -ENOPATCH. where's your patch? --- ~Randy You can't do anything without having to do something else first. -- Belefant's Law - 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/