From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757262AbYAXUIX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756960AbYAXUIB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:01 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:37228 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756908AbYAXUIA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:51:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Newall Cc: Adrian Bunk , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080124195133.GA2375@elf.ucw.cz> References: <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> <20080124172414.GD4476@does.not.exist> <4798D10C.6090109@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4798D10C.6090109@davidnewall.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2008-01-25 04:25:24, David Newall wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Removing dead code makes: > > - the kernel smaller, > > - the kernel faster and > > - makes it easier to maintain the non-dead code. > > > > The performance benefit is trivial, and the improvement to > maintainability is even less. > > > All of these are considered useful by the people who actually > > contribute to the Linux kernel. > > > > Contributions to the kernel take forms other than just code. I'm > contributing in this very instance by putting the argument against > removal of code. Once removed it'll be much harder to re-insert than to > repair in-situ. /-------------------------\ | | | Stop feeding the TROLL | | | \-------------------------/ || || || || || || || (yes, that's you, David. You are wasting everyone's time. Go away.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html