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

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0200
tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:

> 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 API has not stabilized.  I noticed the API changing twice within a
couple of months this year, and on questioning this strange happening
(as I saw it) I was told that the driver API hasn't been stable since
2.0.0.  What seems to be happening is that the driver API needs to be
altered to plug security holes.  I think it is also changed to
implement ideas of performance enhancement.  As to further details I
am quite in the dark, and for once in my life happy to remain so.

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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