Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:39:19 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's what we largely had with the Xen merge, for example. A lot of the > code had been around for basically _forever_, and the people involved in > reviewing it got really tired of it, and there was no way in *hell* a new > person would ever start reviewing the huge backlog. Once it is massive, > it's just too massive. >
Heh. The Xen code in the kernel now is a complete rewrite, with only trace elements from the original patchset. And yes, that's partly because the original patches were unreviewable.
J
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