From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265572AbUBFR1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:27:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265578AbUBFR1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:27:13 -0500 Received: from kalmia.drgw.net ([209.234.73.41]:11144 "EHLO kalmia.hozed.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265572AbUBFR1K (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:27:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:27:09 -0600 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel Message-ID: <20040206172709.GT11222@kalmia.hozed.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:42:14AM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2004 at 05:11:00PM -0800, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:26:46PM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote: > >> Personally, I'm amazed that professional developers have to discuss > or > >> defend modular, portable code. > > > >You're new to linux-kernel, aren't you? ;) > > I was not trying to be condescending. My point was that I think that > everyone on this list knows the purpose and benefits behind an > abstraction layer. It's not something that needed to be discussed any > further. I attempting to make a (poor) joke on the contiual flamewars that happen on open-source development projects. I think someone's said something like this before, but.. "Nothing useful ever gets done on linux-kernel without a good flamewar"