Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Martin Steigerwald
2015-04-15T19:04:34Z

Am Mittwoch, 15. April 2015, 13:40:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:27:13AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:21:49AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:20:34AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman
wrote:
> > > > > > We're all forced to use cgroups, systemd, udev unless we want
> > > > > > to have busybox as userland. That's a fact.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that a problem?
> > > >
> > > > I'm amazed that you're really actually asking that question :-(
> > >
> > > Really? Why can't userspace rely on the features that the kernel
> > > provides them?
> >
> > Userspace can do whatever it wants. As long as I'm not being *forced*
> > to do what userspace thinks is the right thing.
> >
> > It seems to me that since that whole systemd* debacle started, we're
> > forgetting the choice aspect.
>
> What "choice" aspect? Surely you aren't going to make the "Linux is
> about choice" argument are you?
>
> > And dammit, I want my choice. I want to be able to choose what I'm
> > running. Not run what someone else thought what would be good for me
> > to
> > run. If I wanted that, I'd long switched to windoze or äbble.
>
> Oh crap, you went there :)
>
> Take a look at http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/ please.

Just one question:

In what way is the post of a single kernel developer authoritative for the
whole community?

Even if I would make a poster of 200x100 meters or so and stick it onto a
building, it wouldn´t be.

Ciao,
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