Re: Driver model.. expel legacy drivers?

From: Kevin K
Date: Sat Oct 14 2006 - 17:16:20 EST



On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:04 AM, John Richard Moser wrote:
My math predicts that 2.6.57 (+39) will be 100M (in approximately 7
years if you assume 1 kernel release every 2 months); 2.6.92 (+35) will
breech 200M; 2.6.117 (+25) will breech 300M; and 2.6.138 (+21)) will
breech 400M. That should suffice for predictions over the next 20 years
based on this crude model.


Who knows. By that time, CPU caches may be that size. And hopefully tools are developed to an extent that they can automate cleanup.
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