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man, 09.02.2004 kl. 11.24 skrev Andrew Morton: > Boggle. That thing is 1.8MB. > > 163 files changed, 25877 insertions(+), 22424 deletions(-) > > This is the first time that anyone told me that it even existed. How on > earth could a patch to a major subsystem grow to such a size in such > isolation? When we're at kernel version 2.6.3! > > How mature is this code? What is its testing status? What is the size of > its user base? Is it available as individual, changelogged patches? > > It would be crazy to simply shut our eyes and slam something of this > magnitude into the tree. And it is totally unreasonable to expect > interested parties to be able to review and understand it. > > Could someone please tell me how this situation came about, and what we can > do to prevent any reoccurrence? I don't know more than this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107523583528989&w=2 But I _do_ know that ISDN is non-working for me with 2.6.x kernels without this patch. Best regards, Stian - 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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