On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:08:01PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Whoever is proposing a feature has the burden to justify that > its usefulness is larger than the overhead/cost it adds. > > Doesn't seem to be the case with this one so far. Huh? There are half a dozen people who think it does, and half a dozen people who think it doesn't. Fine, you're on the side which sees no use for it. > And in general ignoring overhead in new features is a pretty sad > approach. Big bloat does come in small steps with each new feature. A very generic argument which could be used to shoot down any new feature. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
