From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20090921170202.GA1306@polynum.com> References: <13426df10909210922k6dec156ax1051cfe28a00b463@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13426df10909210922k6dec156ax1051cfe28a00b463@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 730fa66c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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... -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C