From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757907AbYAXRZz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:25:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752325AbYAXRZr (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:25:47 -0500 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:53248 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752100AbYAXRZr (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:25:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:24:14 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Newall Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080124172414.GD4476@does.not.exist> References: <20080120051822.GB19784@one.firstfloor.org> <4792DD22.4070902@davidnewall.com> <20080120055544.GB19861@one.firstfloor.org> <4792E8E2.1090307@davidnewall.com> <20080120072922.GA21047@one.firstfloor.org> <4793F775.6090403@davidnewall.com> <20080122111205.GA25090@elte.hu> <4796081A.7060505@davidnewall.com> <20080122160114.GB23277@does.not.exist> <4798C511.8070305@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4798C511.8070305@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:34:17AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > But Linux kernel development is not driven by people producing hot air > > about what they wish to see in the future, Linux kernel development is > > driven by people sending patches. > > Removal of code is not development. It's the opposite of development. Removing dead code makes: - the kernel smaller, - the kernel faster and - makes it easier to maintain the non-dead code. All of these are considered useful by the people who actually contribute to the Linux kernel. > At one stage iBCS2 support DID work. Now it doesn't. Now there's an > argument that the remaining infrastructure should be removed. This is > the wrong direction to take. When did iBCS2 support work in a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel? And if you consider iBCS2 support that important I can only repeat that the language on Linux kernel are patches, not hot air. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed