linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

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Message-ID: <20080124172414.GD4476@does.not.exist>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:24:14 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:34:17AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > But Linux kernel development is not driven by people producing hot air 
> > about what they wish to see in the future, Linux kernel development is 
> > driven by people sending patches.
> 
> Removal of code is not development.  It's the opposite of development.

Removing dead code makes:
- the kernel smaller,
- the kernel faster and
- makes it easier to maintain the non-dead code.

All of these are considered useful by the people who actually 
contribute to the Linux kernel.

> At one stage iBCS2 support DID work.  Now it doesn't.  Now there's an
> argument that the remaining infrastructure should be removed.  This is
> the wrong direction to take.

When did iBCS2 support work in a plain ftp.kernel.org kernel?

And if you consider iBCS2 support that important I can only repeat that 
the language on Linux kernel are patches, not hot air.

cu
Adrian

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