* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:05:20 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe true for a general purpose computer, but someone who
> > > is making a single-purpose device such as a digital TV or
> > > a wifi router won't want it.
> >
> > That's the case for 99% of the features and semantics we
> > have: by definition a single-purpose device uses only a
> > small sub-set of an infinite purpose OS, right?
> >
> > Still we only modularize semantics out if they easily fit
> > into some existing plug-in/module concept, if the feature is
> > arguably oddball that a sizable portion of people want to
> > disable, or if it makes notable sense for size reasons. To
> > me it looked distinctly silly to complicate things for such
> > a small piece of code.
>
> We're talking tens or hundreds of millions of machines for
> which the patch is a straightforward speed and space
> regression. Fixing this needs just a little Kconfig twiddling
> and a #else clause. We may as well do it.
No strong objections from me.
> > I doubt Kees would mind modularizing it, but it would be nice to
> > get VFS maintainer feedback in the:
> >
> > { 'you are crazy, over my dead body' ... 'cool, merge it' }
> >
> > continuous spectrum of possible answers.
>
> Well yes. We'll get there.
>
> Alas, I've become rather slack in my maintainer patchbombing
> in the past year or two. It's just boring and depressing to
> spray patches at maintainers and have 90% or more of them
> simply ignored. [...]
How about just sending it to Linus after the first ignored patch
[perhaps marked in a special way, to make Linus aware of the
out-of-band nature of the patches], instead of buffering them
indefinitely and increasing your overhead all around?
We'll no doubt regret some of those patches going upstream, but
that's OK i think, this is an exception mechanism.
> [...] I'm sitting on 45 such patches at present so I suppose I
> should get off my tail and do a respray.
(If I missed any then let me know.)
Thanks,
Ingo
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