| 1 |
Am Montag 26 September 2011, 20:13:53 schrieb Grant Edwards: |
| 2 |
> On 2011-09-26, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
| 4 |
> >> Hi, |
| 5 |
> >> |
| 6 |
> >> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you |
| 7 |
> >> might |
| 8 |
> >> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): |
| 9 |
> >> |
| 10 |
> >> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons |
| 11 |
> >> -on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440> |
| 12 |
> > Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section: |
| 13 |
> > |
| 14 |
> > --begin-section-- |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> [...] |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> > Breaking the user experience in order to ???fix??? something |
| 19 |
> > is a totally broken concept; you cannot do it. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> That's hilarious. |
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
> The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break |
| 24 |
> existing device driver code. There are repeatedly wholesale |
| 25 |
> re-designs of some APIs that happen between minor versions of a |
| 26 |
> supposedly "stable" kernel. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
which is seriously not a problem and does not matter in the slightest. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
They NEVER change user-space APIs and ABIs in incompatible ways. THAT is |
| 31 |
important. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> We have to touch our NetBSD and FreeBSD drivers maybe once every 3-4 |
| 35 |
> years. |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
and look how much devices they drive - because nobody has to send their |
| 38 |
drivers upstream, nobody does. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
> Often our Linux drivers have to be updated every 3-4 _months_ |
| 41 |
> to keep up with changes in the kernel that break things. |
| 42 |
|
| 43 |
which is your own fucking fault. |
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
Get your drivers into the kernel. Problem solved. |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
-- |
| 48 |
#163933 |
Archives