Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

Ingo Molnar
2007-04-06T11:07:27Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > [...] Did Linux have extremely high quality code in 1994?
>
> yes! It was crutial to strive for extremely high quality code all the
> time. That was the only way to grow Linux's codebase, which was
> ~300,000 lines of code in 1994, to the current 7.2+ million lines of
> code, without losing maintainability. [...]

in fact Linux 1.0, released in early 1994, was only 170,000 LOC:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v1.0/linux-1.0.tar.gz

and i just looked at a few random files in it - it's pretty clean.

Ingo