Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:51:50 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > * David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > And the thing is, in hindsight, after such huge flamewars, years down the > > > line, almost never do I see the following question asked: 'what were we > > > thinking merging that crap??'. If any question arises it's usually along the > > > lines of: 'what was the big fuss about?'. So I think by and large the process > > > works. > > > > counterexamples, devfs, tux > > Actually, we never merged the Tux web server upstream, and the devfs concept has > kind of made a comeback via devtmpfs.
Bits of devfs also live on in sysfs. So devfs wasn't a bad initial idea IMHO, but we had to do one more (incompatible ...) iteration to figure out why we didn't like it.
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure there's a snowball's chance in hell that we'd have ended up with the current pretty cleaned up hardware/system ABI _without_ devfs. So it was a necessary pain.
Thanks,
Ingo
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