Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 15:34 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
During the roundtable discussion at LinuxCon this year, Linus Torvalds made some pretty harsh remarks about the current state of the Linux kernel, calling it "huge and bloated", and that there is no plan in sight to solve the problem. At the same time, he also explained that he is very happy with the current development process of the kernel, and that his job has become much easier.
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2006-01-17
No stable ABI, please. When in-kernel ABI changes, there is a good reason. We don't nees only badly mantained or abandoned binary out-of-tree drivers that don't get modified for months/years to support e.g. power management improvements when a new kernel revision is released.
It's not hard to keep up with linux driver ABI changes because improvements are incremental, tested each iteration and that way a few if any new bugs are introduced. For binary blobs which in existance, it's a minor problem to port their code to a new kernel release. In fact, no-ABI forces them to mantain it to support new OS features. Fortunately we have in-kernel drivers for most relevant hardware, minus some graphic cards.