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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Topic: Removal of code that is still in use by users but there is a better code.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 07:53:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140612075355.4b0d1f5a@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo5Hg4KXca-oysLyH0OfiDFLmmvFjJHWBVzELtvdr7zV7A@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Bjorn,

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:43:18 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>
> all did our jobs perfectly, we would never add a change to Linux that
> broke compilation of anything.  So if there's a file that doesn't
> compile anymore, I think of that as a result of a mistake somewhere
> along the line.  We can use that mistake to deduce that nobody cares
> anymore, but it'd be a lot nicer to have a scheme that didn't depend
> on people making random mistakes.

We could start making nonrandom mistakes? ;-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-10 20:12 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-10 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-11  0:36   ` josh
2014-06-11 15:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-11 20:02       ` josh
2014-06-11 17:54   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-11 19:43     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2014-06-11 21:53       ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2014-06-11 22:01         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-11 22:17           ` James Bottomley
2014-06-11 22:26             ` Roland Dreier
2014-06-11 22:36               ` James Bottomley
2014-06-12 11:41                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-12 13:27                 ` John W. Linville
2014-06-13  1:36                   ` James Bottomley
2014-06-19 13:01                 ` Linus Walleij
2014-06-11 23:22       ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-12  2:48         ` Steven Rostedt
2014-06-12  7:16           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-06-12  0:07     ` H. Peter Anvin

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