Re: The direction linux is taking

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 15:12:54 EST


On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > came out, and emailed me when the patch no longer applies.
>
> ... or compiles, or applies with an offset

Good.

We actually talked inside Transmeta about doing a lot of this automation
centralized (and OSDL took up some of that idea), but yes, from a resource
usage sanity standpoint this is something that _trivially_ can be done at
the sending side, and thus scales out perfectly (while trying to do it at
the receiving end requires some _mondo_ hardware that definitely doesn't
scale, especially for the "compiles cleanly" part).

                Linus

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