From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760260AbXK0XWQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:22:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760704AbXK0XVv (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:21:51 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:35026 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760631AbXK0XVu (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:21:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:21:39 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jarek Poplawski Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular Message-ID: <20071127232139.GJ3406@stusta.de> References: <20071125172237.GC6658@kernel.dk> <20071127070912.GB1735@ff.dom.local> <20071127164723.GA3406@stusta.de> <474C9714.1080308@o2.pl> <474CA1F0.3090504@o2.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474CA1F0.3090504@o2.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:02:08AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 11/27/2007 11:15 PM: > ... > > > Otherwise it's not so hard to overlook some stagnation. > > Btw., after this 'forking' thing etc. it seems I might have lost the point > a little: which removed choices should justify such a fork. Let me try to rephrase it: If you think an open source project does something wrong you have the right to fork it and offer an (in your opinion) better version. This is the right you have. But if you think open source gives you any legal or moral right to demand any featurs or choices or whatever from developers you are completely mistaken. > But, I hope, > you didn't mean your patch only, because then e.g. this stagnation threat > looks like a bit exaggerated... The question how many I/O schedulers we need is anyway in no direction related to my patch. > Jarek P. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed