linux-kernel - Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?

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Message-Id: <7E4CA247-AD0A-4A20-BEAF-CDD2CA4D3FFE@sbcglobal.net>
Date:	Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:14:35 -0500
From:	Kevin K <k_krieser@...global.net>
To:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?

On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:04 AM, John Richard Moser wrote:
> My math predicts that 2.6.57 (+39) will be 100M (in approximately 7
> years if you assume 1 kernel release every 2 months); 2.6.92 (+35)  
> will
> breech 200M; 2.6.117 (+25) will breech 300M; and 2.6.138 (+21)) will
> breech 400M.  That should suffice for predictions over the next 20  
> years
> based on this crude model.
>

Who knows.  By that time, CPU caches may be that size.  And hopefully  
tools are developed to an extent that they can automate cleanup.
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