Re: PATCH 2.3.23 pre 2 compile fixes

Donald Becker (becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:25:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> It's often a week or two before a test versions is reported on, so
> many times there is no way to serialize the changes.
>
> Think how much faster, and more voluminous, reporting you would
> receive if your changes went into the main trees on a timely basis?

Yes, I would thousands of emails instead of just hundreds a day.
And most of them would be repeats or just mistaken: every protocol layer bug
or change would be confused with a driver problem, and vice-versa.

Look at the absurd size of the uncompressed 2.3.* kernel patches for how
unreasonable this monolithic development system has become.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

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