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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Development Model
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:20:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050419142023.GA14968@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0504182219360.6679@bailey.quantumlinux.com>

> that (at least for now) no *MAJOR* "rip it out, stomp on it, burn it and 
> start over" parts of the kernel exist any longer? In other words, do you 

These ideas continue to exist. This is partly due to increasing skills of
developers but also to the changing environment. You'll find literally
scores of commits that say 'this was a good idea when were were limited to
1024 filedescriptor' or the like.

I think the tty layer has been ready to be ripped out and replaced for the
past 10 years though.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-19  5:31 Chuck Wolber
2005-04-19 14:20 ` bert hubert [this message]
2005-04-19 14:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-19 19:24   ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-20 20:22     ` Ralf Baechle
2005-04-19 20:26 ` Florian Weimer

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