From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:51:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080124195133.GA2375@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4798D10C.6090109@davidnewall.com>
On Fri 2008-01-25 04:25:24, David Newall wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Removing dead code makes:
> > - the kernel smaller,
> > - the kernel faster and
> > - makes it easier to maintain the non-dead code.
> >
>
> The performance benefit is trivial, and the improvement to
> maintainability is even less.
>
> > All of these are considered useful by the people who actually
> > contribute to the Linux kernel.
> >
>
> Contributions to the kernel take forms other than just code. I'm
> contributing in this very instance by putting the argument against
> removal of code. Once removed it'll be much harder to re-insert than to
> repair in-situ.
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(yes, that's you, David. You are
wasting everyone's time. Go away.)
Pavel
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(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 4:59 [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 2:27 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 3:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 4:46 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 5:18 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 5:33 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 5:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 6:23 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 7:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 1:37 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 10:24 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:06 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-23 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 14:12 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-23 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-24 17:06 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 12:42 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:13 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24 17:01 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:04 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 17:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:55 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 18:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-25 2:14 ` David Newall
2008-01-25 5:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-25 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 19:51 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-01-25 2:17 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25 2:16 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 17:08 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 13:20 ` Giulio
2008-01-20 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-20 13:43 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-25 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
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