From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752211AbaHRUjn (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:39:43 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:34632 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752036AbaHRUjm (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:39:42 -0400 Message-ID: <53F242D1.4050506@ahsoftware.de> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:15:45 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Peter Zijlstra CC: =?UTF-8?B?TcOlbnMgUnVsbGfDpXJk?= , Steven Rostedt , Christopher Barry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World References: <20140812153812.2923046a@monolith.infinux.org> <20140812202129.GA20344@home.goodmis.org> <20140813082756.GB2923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140813090013.GA20581@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20140813090013.GA20581@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 13.08.2014 11:00, schrieb Borislav Petkov: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> And the thing is; we're all very busy so we tend to take the 'easy' >> way out for things like this; but wholesale switching all my machines >> is indeed painful, and I'm not liking. > > Right, I think kernel people will gladly jump on a sane solution devoid > of that kids-jerking-off-on-linux-desktop-just-for-the-fun-of-it > situation if someone would present them with one. So, if someone would > come up and do a sane init design without the jerking off, kernel people > would jump on that in a heartbeat. Someone might even start getting > patches from them too. ^^Hint^^ ^^hint^^. > > :-) Hmm, a sane and maintainable solution would use C++ with which people don't have to manually build lists or hashes for every structure like in the kernel (generic programming done right). So you won't find much kernel developers there. ;) Regards, Alexander Holler