Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:57:45 +0200 | Subject | Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:12 PM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2015, 10:39:52 schrieb David Lang: >>> 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 >> >> What was tux? > > in-kernel webserver
Which was cool, and small, and _faster_ than anything else... Until it was integrated, and people working on (userspace) webservers started considering its performance as a target, and soon it was out-performed by userspace webservers...
So it did teach us a lesson...
(Perhaps the above paragraph is actually good advocacy for integrating kdbus, and for seeding a better userspace implementation? ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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