Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:32:58 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1 |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is > > *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of > > criticizing it :-) > > I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone. > Some of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development, > e.g. all the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly > integrated" IRIX development cycle.
As i said it's not a guarantee, you can mess up even under the best of circumstances.
Also, arguably a filesystem is constrainted wrt. ABIs: it's just one filesystem which pretty much pushes it towards ioctls which in turn is often an unstructured breeding ground for mess.
Thanks,
Ingo
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