Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1

Ingo Molnar
2011-07-25T11:34:02Z

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is
> > *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of
> > criticizing it :-)
>
> I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone.
> Some of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development,
> e.g. all the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly
> integrated" IRIX development cycle.

As i said it's not a guarantee, you can mess up even under the best
of circumstances.

Also, arguably a filesystem is constrainted wrt. ABIs: it's just one
filesystem which pretty much pushes it towards ioctls which in turn
is often an unstructured breeding ground for mess.

Thanks,

Ingo