Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> 2.7M lines last year
> 10K lines added a day.
> 5K lines deleted per day.
>
> I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next?

Are there stats indicating where the lines are added? If this is new
hardware (drivers), the accumulation is not a problem---if the API stays
stable; if one needs to rework all the drivers because the API does not
stabilized...

The only time I had to dive in the Linux kernel code, I was disappointed
by the "entropy" of the style and ended grep'ing or awk'ing all around
to extract a (partial) list of PCI identifiers and drivers. (This was
long ago now. 2002 ?)

I wonder if a software project will some day be an example of a black
hole: collapsing from its own size, the work needed to just make it work
being greater than the resources available and the gain to have it
work; and the inability to understand the whole (too much, too long)
resulting in the impossibility to evolve...
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