On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:57:27 -0400 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:16:43PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > We are talking about a filesystem even Christoph considers OK. > > > > And who asked about the costs of merging crap like > > drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/ ? > > > > Speaking about the latter, with Linus' logic one might argue that OMFS > > must not be rejected since it adds support for some hardware... > > Excatly. I find it very strange to even consider rejecting a rather > small and very well written driver for let's say "political" reasons. "economic" would be a far more accurate term. Look, I have repeatedly described the reason why it is probable a poor tradeoff to merge code such as this. The only response has been "well we've done it before", which is largely a non-reason. You can continue to ignore my logic, but that won't go unnoticed. Just as a thought exercise: should we merge a small and well-written driver which has zero users? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
