Re: [GIT PULL] Native Linux KVM tool for 3.1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > Fact is that developing ABIs within an integrated project is 
> > *amazingly* powerful. You should try it one day, instead of 
> > criticizing it :-)
> 
> I've been doing this long before you declare it the rosetta stone.  
> Some of the worst ABIs I know come from that kind of development, 
> e.g. all the ioctls we have in xfs, inherited from the "tightly 
> integrated" IRIX development cycle.

As i said it's not a guarantee, you can mess up even under the best 
of circumstances.

Also, arguably a filesystem is constrainted wrt. ABIs: it's just one 
filesystem which pretty much pushes it towards ioctls which in turn 
is often an unstructured breeding ground for mess.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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