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Message-ID: <474CB44B.40109@o2.pl>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:20:27 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
CC:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular

Adrian Bunk wrote, On 11/27/2007 11:53 PM:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
... 
> Most Google hits are about abortion.
> 
> The fact that people use this term in some completely different 
> context does not give it the meaning you implied it had.
> 
> Oh, and this right of choice also does not exist in Poland...


Anyway, your later arguments could suggest you've understood,

what I've meant. And maybe abortion isn't bad association here...

...

> As one of the most active code removers in the kernel [1], I can tell 
> you what actually happens in practice:

...
> It's always surprising how many people complain when you deprecate or 

> remove a choice B that choice A wouldn't work for them, and who had 
> never reported their problems before since choice B worked for them...


Of course, all these choices should be reasonably limited, so the
opinions of users and maintainers should be always considered.

But, I was rather against something else: removing some maybe not very
popular, but still not buggy options, only to save a few kilobytes or
maintainers' time.

 
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/


My congratulations! Of course, removing is something necessary, but I wish

you many problems! (== many users)

Thanks,
Jarek P.
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