Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:13:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent?

They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate 
something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these 
days. Which is problematic.

But some of it is likely also compilers. gcc does insane padding in many 
cases these days. 

And a lot of it is us just being bloated. Argh.

		Linus
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