Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:04:51 -0700 Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> --Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote (on Monday, October 03, 2005 00:05:45 +0100):
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 05:05:42PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >> 
> >> > and, what is the linux kernel?
> >> > 
> >> > it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on
> >> > single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_
> >> > outdated, really soon.
> >> 
> >> Linux already has a number of scalable SMP synchronisation
> >> mechanisms. 
> > 
> >  ... and you are tied in to the decisions made by the linux kernel
> >  developers.
> 
> Yes. As are the rest of us. So if you want to implement something 
> different, that's your perogative. So feel free to go do it 
> somewhere else, and quit whining on this list. 
> 
> We are not your implementation bitches. If you think it's such a great
> idea, do it yourself.

IOW, -ENOPATCH.  where's your patch?

---
~Randy
You can't do anything without having to do something else first.
-- Belefant's Law
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