linux-kernel - Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:39:19 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	david@...g.hm, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@....net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's what we largely had with the Xen merge, for example. A lot of the 
> code had been around for basically _forever_, and the people involved in 
> reviewing it got really tired of it, and there was no way in *hell* a new 
> person would ever start reviewing the huge backlog. Once it is massive, 
> it's just too massive.
>   

Heh.  The Xen code in the kernel now is a complete rewrite, with only 
trace elements from the original patchset.  And yes, that's partly 
because the original patches were unreviewable.

    J
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