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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:07:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> It's an incredibble bandwidth waste for 99.99% of people downolading
> 2.5.xx and it *is* making architectural changes in the kernel harder,
> becouse the modularisatoin of the kernel isn't nearly as perfect as
> you try to disguise it here. Please just have a look at the
> consequences of the kdev_t changes, which where necessary since
> already about 8 years. And then my these is somehow tautological if it
> doesn't apply now, it will apply in about 4 years. At some point in
> time there is the need to let some things go - the problem is more
> fundamental.

it's not mandatory for the developer to push every interface change into
every driver or every architecture. Sure, if some code has not been kept
in sync for a long time then it should be zapped, but the pure fact that
something is less often used should not make it a candidate for zapping.

	Ingo

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