Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:37:32 +0100 | From | Hubert Mantel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up (fwd) |
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Hi,
On Tue, Dec 11, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes: > > >Lack of documentation is not a bug, period. Also it's not true that I'm > > I scare myself shitless that you as the one responsible for something > as crucial as MM in the Linux kernel, has such an attitude towards > software development especially when people like RvR as for docs. > > Sorry, but to me this sounds like something from M$ (MAPI? You don't > need MAPI documentation. We know what we're doing. You don't need to > know how Windows XX works. It's enough that we know). > > Actually, you _do_ get documentation from M$. Something, one can't say
How do you know the documentation matches the actual code?
> about the Linux MM-sprikled-with holy-penguin-pee subsystem.
In Linux, you get even more: You can look at the code itself.
> I'm not happy about your usage of magic numbers, either. So it is > still running on solid 2.2.19 until further notice (or until Rik loses > his patience. ;-) )
Oh, the 2.2.19 VM is from Andrea ;)
> Regards > Henning -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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