Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Jul 2007 09:04 UTC
"People who think SD was 'perfect' were simply ignoring reality," Linus Torvalds began in a succinct explanation as to why he chose the CFS scheduler written by Ingo Molnar instead of the SD scheduler written by Con Kolivas. He continued, "sadly, that seemed to include Con too, which was one of the main reasons that I never [entertained] the notion of merging SD for very long at all: Con ended up arguing against people who reported problems, rather than trying to work with them." He went on to stress the importance of working toward a solution that is good for everyone, "that was where the SD patches fell down. They didn't have a maintainer that I could trust to actually care about any other issues than his own." Update: OSNews user superstoned pointed us to the other side of the story.
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Con Kolivas' personality is "poisonous" or his work poisoning the kernel? Are you serious? This guy, more than any one else, brought to attention and a solution to the problems of desktop performance. Linus is human--a high-acheiving one, driven by ego and reputation--and his behavior in this matter is observable in most individuals who acquire national prestige and reputation when they are threatened. They first actively seek to find fault on technical grounds, decline to allow wider testing of alternative ideas and methods (in Con's case--disallowing entry into the mainline kernel), and when that fails attack the individual as being unstable, untrustworthy adducing any vocalized frustration on Con's part as proof of their unsuitability.