linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

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Message-ID: <47D06717.9000104@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:50:15 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> i really find it so disheartening at times that people fight trivial 
> usability additions tooth and nail in a _9 million lines of code_ kernel 
> with a ... "bloat" argument.
> 

Because they come in one at a time, in a completely disorganized fashion 
(which you yourself complain on further down.)

Yes, I'm bitter about it because my multiyear attempt at cleaning up and 
modularizing this area was rejected, and I had to find out about it 
secondhand.

To hell with it all.

	-hpa
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