From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757802AbYEABjn (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752787AbYEABjf (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:39:35 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:48337 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837AbYEABje (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:39:34 -0400 Message-ID: <48191F47.7050706@goop.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:39:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080418) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: david@lang.hm, Chris Shoemaker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200805010023.32213.rjw@sisk.pl> <200805010145.39373.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080501000131.GB1559@pe.Belkin> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's what we largely had with the Xen merge, for example. A lot of the > code had been around for basically _forever_, and the people involved in > reviewing it got really tired of it, and there was no way in *hell* a new > person would ever start reviewing the huge backlog. Once it is massive, > it's just too massive. > Heh. The Xen code in the kernel now is a complete rewrite, with only trace elements from the original patchset. And yes, that's partly because the original patches were unreviewable. J