Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:46:44 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-12-05T14:30:09, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: > > >>Actually I would be happy with the stability of this series if people >>would stop trying to take working features OUT of it! > > > Features are removed when they are no longer features, but design > irritations in a new and improved design, and usually, equivalent or > better (or at least thought to be) functionality is available still in > the big picture (which includes user-space), hopefully in a cleaner > place. > > Now, design is often a holy war, and people disagree. That's fine and to > be expected. And sometimes, the whole solution takes a while to > materialize and be implemented from the kernel up to all user-space and > even longer until it has been implemented in the brains of the admins. > This, too, is fine and expected. It's called "innovation" and > "development", sometimes iterative.
Removing features because there are better solutions is one thing, although it has been done at kernel tree changes for a decade. Removing features for reasons of religion is rather a case of developers removing a useful and unbroken feature for which there is no replacement purely because someone doesn't like it, or it saves a dozen lines of code.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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