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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > but the main and fundamental question still remains unanswered (more > > than 3 weeks after Andrew asked that question): why was this piece > > of general infrastructure merged via net.git and not submitted to > > lkml ever? The code touching -mm does _not_ count as "review". > > I already stated this was a mistake and it won't happen again in the > future. sorry - that bit of the thread didnt seem to make it to lkml. I just saw this incomplete discussion with a denial and with no resolution. And you did the right thing anyway by thinking in terms of a generic piece of infrastructure instead of hiding it away into say include/net/pcounter.h (which nobody could have objected against). I sometimes think that the forced isolation of subsystems (rather strongly enforced both by -mm and by linux-next) and their hiding away on non-lkml lists will eventually hurt the core kernel because less and less people will be willing to go the trouble of doing proper cross-subsystem development. That results in duplicated or specialistic infrastructure, increased code size and longer term, ultimately less performance. (by the time we notice _that_ it will probably be too late to do anything about it) Ingo -- 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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