Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:48:28 +0100 |
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On February 18, 2002 04:15 pm, SodaPop wrote: > I can't believe you people, even if you are high level kernel > maintainers. > > The most major complaints I see against CML2 are that 'the > behaviour is different from CML1' and 'CML2 has a whole bunch of > "features" too which will be shoved down our throats'. > > Duh! That was the freaking point! Granted I'm not a kernel hacking > expert, but I've been building my own kernels since 1995 and I see > definite value in having the side effects and grouping stuff in > CML2. I also see significant value in having the symbol set and > rules provably coherent. > > You guys change the low level kernel interfaces all the time. You > change module interfaces out from underneath people every other > month. You depreciate malloc.h and replace it with slab.h and > don't so much as give it a second thought, yet you bitch up a > storm about how the changes in CML2 behaviour are unacceptable?
Right. The bitching and moaning is stupid. Lets move on.
> You guys force changes down the throats of other people all the > time. Well now, in my lowly opinion, it's time for you to do what > everyone else is already used to - choke it down, and comfort > yourself by saying 'it was the right thing to do.' > > Looking forward to seeing CML2 in 2.5,
Yup.
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