Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 21:39:44 EST
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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