From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:22:08 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090930142208.7c149d0c.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20090921170202.GA1306@polynum.com> References: <13426df10909210922k6dec156ax1051cfe28a00b463@mail.gmail.com> <20090921170202.GA1306@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79ae586a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.