On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:41:18PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:05:25PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > > One final attempt to summarize the objections that have been made: > > [snip] > > One other thing: posix semaphores used to be a module. That code was > made the victim^W showpiece for demonstrating how the New World Order > was going to be. When the New World Order turned out to be broken, > that and other things were rolled back after a lengthy political > squabble. > > Part of the resistance you're seeing is the legacy of that squabble, > even though people probably don't really want to say so.
One other point: the changes add mechanism, and that mechanism has a cost (in maintenance if nothing else) -- if the changes are more or less pointless as a number of people think, then we'd be paying that cost for zero or negligible benefit. That does seem like a valid reason to oppose such changes. for my part during the above-mentioned squabble I made it pretty clear that I think aggressive use of kernel modules is at best tilting at windmills; I stand by that position, but I'm not really interested in fighting about it at the moment so I won't stick my oar in any further. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org