Re: Christmas list for the kernel

Bill Davidsen
2005-11-23T16:33:19Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 11/22/05, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:31, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>>
>>>>There have been recent comments about the pace of kernel development
>>>>slowing.
>>>
>>>I doubt the diffstat from the last 6 kernel releases will tell this story.
>>
>>Andrew Morton said it: "He suggested this may indicate that the kernel
>>is nearing completion. "Famous last words, but the actual patch volume
>>_has_ to drop off one day," said Morton. "We have to finish this thing
>>one day."
>>
>>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39221942,00.htm
>>
>
>
> I was wrong, as usual. The trend at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/x.jpg is,
> I think, being maintained.

Ah, but the percentage of lines is dropping as the kernel gets more
bloated^H^H^H^H^H^H^featureful.

BTW: what is the baseline day zero code here? 2.6.0?
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