Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030312AbVKWCAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:00:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965206AbVKWCAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:00:21 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:41699 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965197AbVKWCAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:00:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:00:06 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jon Smirl Cc: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel Message-Id: <20051122180006.52d0a6bb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910511221709t546089d1id76357256079d8f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910511221031o44dd90caq2b24fbac1a1bae7b@mail.gmail.com> <200511221839.24202.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <9e4733910511221110j47e8ddcs1c9936db1eb5f0b4@mail.gmail.com> <20051122164353.4177c59a.akpm@osdl.org> <9e4733910511221709t546089d1id76357256079d8f9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 1441 Lines: 37 Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 11/22/05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > > On 11/22/05, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:31, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > There have been recent comments about the pace of kernel development > > > > > slowing. > > > > > > > > I doubt the diffstat from the last 6 kernel releases will tell this story. > > > > > > Andrew Morton said it: "He suggested this may indicate that the kernel > > > is nearing completion. "Famous last words, but the actual patch volume > > > _has_ to drop off one day," said Morton. "We have to finish this thing > > > one day." > > > > > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39221942,00.htm > > > > > > > I was wrong, as usual. The trend at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/x.jpg is, > > I think, being maintained. > > I wonder what that would look like if you pull Adrian Bunk's changes > out. He is generating thousands of lines of patches (they're good > patches but they don't add features). > grep '^[+-]' $(grep -rl '^From:.*Bunk' patches) | wc -l 59298 59k out of 7M lines changed. - 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/