Re: More fuel to the fire [Linus' aesthetic DOES scale!]
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:57:49 +1000
Benjamin Redelings, I writes:
[...]
> WE DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT IN THE WIN-NT TRAP HERE! Linus has
> consistently complained that other people don't think enough before they
> submit their patches. Not that that maintainers are stupid, but that
> they just do things that "work", and that they don't think about the
> implications enough. At least he used to, but it didn't seem to have
> much effect. However, it does work though: R. Gooch gave Linus a patch
> that Linus actually liked by THINKING about it for while first :)
Ahem! I would have thought about it irrespective of whether Linus was
easy with accepting patches. My main criterion was to minimise any
possible overheads. Without a major redesign of the whole scheduler,
the most logical/optimised implementation of the patch was sort of
pre-ordained.
Regards,
Richard....
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