On 7/24/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The other consideration here is, as Nick points out, are the problems which people see this patch solving for them solveable in other, better ways? IOW, is this patch fixing up preexisting deficiencies post-facto?
So let me get this straight - you don't want to merge swap prefetch which exists now and solves issues many people are seeing, and has been tested more than a gazillion other bits & pieces that do get merged - because it could be possible that in the future some other patch, which doesn't yet exist and nobody is working on, may solve the problem better? You know what, just release Linux 0.02 as 2.6.23 because, using your logic, everything that was merged since October 5, 1991 could be replaced by something better. Perhaps. So there's obviously no point having it there in the first place & there'll be untold savings in storage costs and compilation time for the kernel tree, also bandwidth for the mirror sites etc. in the mean time while we wait for the magic pixies to come and deliver the one true piece of code that cannot be improved upon.
Well. The above, plus there's always a lot of stuff happening in MM land, and I haven't seen much in the way of enthusiasm from the usual MM developers.
I haven't seen much in the way of enthusiasm from developers, period. People are tired of maintaining patches for years that never get merged into mainline because of totally bullshit reasons (usually amounting to NIH syndrome) -- Matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
