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This is the sort of thing that scares me about Linux: > Andrew Morton took a look and was worried by what he saw: > Geeze it's a lot of noise. More things
by twic 6y ago
This is the sort of thing that scares me about Linux:
> Andrew Morton took a look and was worried by what he saw:
> Geeze it's a lot of noise. More things to remember and we'll forever have a mismash of `page' and `folio' and code everywhere converting from one to the other. Ongoing addition of folio accessors/manipulators to overlay the existing page accessors/manipulators, etc.
> It's unclear to me that it's all really worth it.
It's worth it, dude. That there are people working on the kernel who aren't terrified of the current situation is genuinely worrying.
- R0b0t1 6y agoPeople want to contribute code to linux because it is prestigious. Critically evaluating contributions is important. Not all contributions are good at scale.
- CJefferson 6y agoYour reply is very unclear -- you are scared because someone doesn't want a massive patch that touches everything and adds another thing everyone has to remember? Why is this worth it? I'm not saying it isn't, but it's reasonable for people to want very clear wins, and no alternative, for this kind of massive change which adds a little more cognitive load to everyone, forever.