Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:25:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Donald Becker <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.23 pre 2 compile fixes |
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
> It's often a week or two before a test versions is reported on, so > many times there is no way to serialize the changes. > > Think how much faster, and more voluminous, reporting you would > receive if your changes went into the main trees on a timely basis?
Yes, I would thousands of emails instead of just hundreds a day. And most of them would be repeats or just mistaken: every protocol layer bug or change would be confused with a driver problem, and vice-versa.
Look at the absurd size of the uncompressed 2.3.* kernel patches for how unreasonable this monolithic development system has become.
Donald Becker Scyld Computing Corporation, and USRA-CESDIS, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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