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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:09:14AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> If we followed that "only do incrementental changes" rule all the time,
> imagine in what state would be our USB stack today since we couldn't
> have dropped in Linus replacement one ...

Bad example, that is not what happened at all.  There was not an
in-kernel USB stack when Linus wrote his.  Inaky had his
all-singing-all-dancing stack outside of the tree, and no one was really
helping out with it.

Only when Linus added his code to mainline did we all jump on it and
_incrementally_ improve it to what we have today.

So, in a way, you just proved that we need to do this in an incremental
fashion, which is what I was also saying all along :)

thanks,

greg k-h