Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:49:13 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool |
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On 04/06/2011 12:46 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Gleb Natapov<gleb@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > So no, your kind of cynical, defeatist sentiment about code quality is by > > > no means true in my experience. Projects become ugly gooballs once > > > maintainers stop caring enough. > > > > In case of Qemu it was other way around. Maintainers started caring too late. > > Nah, i do not think it's ever too late to care. > > Example: arch/i386 - arch/x86_64/ was very messy for many, many years and we > turned it around and can be proud of arch/x86/ today - but i guess i'm somewhat > biased there ;-) > > In my experience it's entirely possible to turn a messy gooball into something > you can be proud of - it's all reversible. Start small, with the core bits you > care about most - then extend those concepts to other areas of the code base, > gradually. There might be subsystems that will never turn around before > becoming obsolete - that's not a big problem.
That is what we're trying to do with qemu.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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