* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is > > *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of > > criticizing it :-) > > I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone. > Some of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development, > e.g. all the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly > integrated" IRIX development cycle. As i said it's not a guarantee, you can mess up even under the best of circumstances. Also, arguably a filesystem is constrainted wrt. ABIs: it's just one filesystem which pretty much pushes it towards ioctls which in turn is often an unstructured breeding ground for mess. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
