On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:47 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Stuart Morrow
> <morrow.stuart@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > so, are you basically saying that linux is a complex operating system,
> > and it just takes a genius to understand its complexity?
>
>
> no, it's just badly designed. Working with a bad design gives me a
> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doesn't mean
> I have to worship at the altar, right?
>
> ron
>
>
I got the hunch it wasn't designed at all, but more "hacked on" or evolved.
 Different subsystems appear to have designs, but there doesn't seem to be
anything stopping people from stomping all over the structures and glue that
make it possible for a driver to last very long without updates needed.  At
least that's been my experience.

In fact the evolutionary nature appears to have been backed as an advantage
by Linus himself.

Dave