Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236AbVKWQdT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:33:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751207AbVKWQdS (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:33:18 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:29396 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbVKWQdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:33:16 -0500 Message-ID: <438494F6.8060502@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:12:38 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel References: <9e4733910511221031o44dd90caq2b24fbac1a1bae7b@mail.gmail.com> <200511221839.24202.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <9e4733910511221110j47e8ddcs1c9936db1eb5f0b4@mail.gmail.com> <20051122164353.4177c59a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051122164353.4177c59a.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 38 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. Ah, but the percentage of lines is dropping as the kernel gets more bloated^H^H^H^H^H^H^featureful. BTW: what is the baseline day zero code here? 2.6.0? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/