From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262905AbUBZSNJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262904AbUBZSNI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:13:08 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:56588 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262903AbUBZSM6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:12:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:12:49 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Grigor Gatchev Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal Message-ID: <20040226181249.A21126@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Grigor Gatchev , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040226121727.GI7580@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from grigor@zadnik.org on Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:37:46PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:37:46PM +0200, Grigor Gatchev wrote: > Developers and users are tied together by the software, Jens. By saving > you, The Developer, parts of the useless wandering, I save them to myself, > the user. Hence "we". > > And if it turns out that the model proposed is good, this may be a larger > contribution to the project than, say, a couple of lines of code. Huh? I fail how writing up a tiny essasy without the slightest understanding of what you're talking about should help us at all. Really, fixing up a few drivers would be a much greater help than this blah blah. Or in short (to quote Linus): "talk is cheap, show me the code" back to work now..