linux-kernel - Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

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Message-ID: <53F242D1.4050506@ahsoftware.de>
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:15:45 +0200
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Christopher Barry <christopher.r.barry@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

Am 13.08.2014 11:00, schrieb Borislav Petkov:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> And the thing is; we're all very busy so we tend to take the 'easy'
>> way out for things like this; but wholesale switching all my machines
>> is indeed painful, and I'm not liking.
>
> Right, I think kernel people will gladly jump on a sane solution devoid
> of that kids-jerking-off-on-linux-desktop-just-for-the-fun-of-it
> situation if someone would present them with one. So, if someone would
> come up and do a sane init design without the jerking off, kernel people
> would jump on that in a heartbeat. Someone might even start getting
> patches from them too. ^^Hint^^ ^^hint^^.
>
> :-)

Hmm, a sane and maintainable solution would use C++ with which people 
don't have to manually build lists or hashes for every structure like in 
the kernel (generic programming done right). So you won't find much 
kernel developers there. ;)

Regards,

Alexander Holler
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