Re: SGI changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:43:00 +0000 (GMT)

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> be short and simple. Having NOT looked at SGI's code, and not intending on
> offending anyone what makes there code more difficult to maintain? Or more
> particularly what makes code difficult to maintain in the first place?

The big one for some of it is modularity. Linux is very modular and its
important it stays that way - thats why my tree can often differ from Linus
by 1Mb and I can throw in Linus 2.3.3x pre patches with no clashes and no
changes needed to fix up afterwards.

That makes for maintainability and debuggability.

Alan

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