Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel

From: Troy Benjegerdes
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 12:28:10 EST


On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:42:14AM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2004 at 05:11:00PM -0800, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:26:46PM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> >> Personally, I'm amazed that professional developers have to discuss
> or
> >> defend modular, portable code.
> >
> >You're new to linux-kernel, aren't you? ;)
>
> I was not trying to be condescending. My point was that I think that
> everyone on this list knows the purpose and benefits behind an
> abstraction layer. It's not something that needed to be discussed any
> further.

I attempting to make a (poor) joke on the contiual flamewars that happen
on open-source development projects.

I think someone's said something like this before, but..

"Nothing useful ever gets done on linux-kernel without a good flamewar"

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