On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:11 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:40:17 -0800 > >> I'd be more supportive of this line of thinking if we (e.g. FB) didn't >> have to spend the majority time over the past few months trying to >> deal with all the complexity being thrown into drivers for all these >> new features such as XDP. Case in point, Mellanox drivers are >> completely non-modular and have a horrible directory structure. They >> tried to fix, this but the patch set was rejected because it would >> break people trying to do backports. That's a fair argument, but the >> lesson I gather from that is that we should put more time in up front >> thinking about how to structure code the right way instead of just >> throwing it in and trying to deal with the consequences later. > > Hey aren't you guys suffering from this because you're stuck on an > older kernel for one reason or another? Don't we constantly give > the Android guys a hard time about this? ;-)
Ha, isn't "everyone is stuck on an older kernel for one reason or another" a metaphor for life? ;-) Backports/rebases/maintainence/bug fixing/testing are the unglamorous realities of kernel engineers trying to deploy in production!
