* David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > And the thing is, in hindsight, after such huge flamewars, years down the
> > line, almost never do I see the following question asked: 'what were we
> > thinking merging that crap??'. If any question arises it's usually along
> > the
> > lines of: 'what was the big fuss about?'. So I think by and large the
> > process
> > works.
>
> counterexamples, devfs, tux
Actually, we never merged the Tux web server upstream, and the devfs concept
has
kind of made a comeback via devtmpfs.
And there are examples of bits we _should_ have merged:
- GGI (General Graphics Interface)
- [ and we should probably also have merged kgdb a decade earlier to avoid
wasting all that energy on flaming about it unnecessarily ;-) ]
And the thing is, I specifically talked about 'near zero cost' kernel patches
that
don't appreciably impact the 'core kernel'.
There's plenty of examples of features with non-trivial 'core kernel' costs
that
weren't merged, and rightfully IMHO:
- the STREAMS ABI
- various forms of a generic kABI that were proposed
- moving the kernel to C++ :-)
... and devfs arguably belongs into that category as well.
Thanks,
Ingo
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