dW: So would you have done things differently with the switch to Andrea Arcangeli's virtual memory [VM] system? [Linus Torvalds switched to a new virtual memory system with the 2.4.10 kernel release, dropping code written by van Riel -- Ed.]
Tosatti: I wouldn't have switched it at that time. Something about Linus that is a problem is that a lot of things come from his mood. He'll just say, "Oh, this is good: Apply. This is good: Apply." He should not accept some of the patches he does. He accepts some patches too early, without thinking too much about them. He does not have the time to really care about some stuff. For example, with Andrea's VM, he just got one VM and then he switched it to another: Boom! He didn't think about all the issues involved with this. I wouldn't have done that the way he did.
Il a 18 ans, il travaille sur Linux depuis qu'il a 14 ans, il donne des leçons à Linus... et, en l'occurence, il a raison !
# Sale gosse !
Posté par TyrandO . En réponse à la dépêche Entrevue avec Marcelo Tosatti. Évalué à 10.
Tosatti: I wouldn't have switched it at that time. Something about Linus that is a problem is that a lot of things come from his mood. He'll just say, "Oh, this is good: Apply. This is good: Apply." He should not accept some of the patches he does. He accepts some patches too early, without thinking too much about them. He does not have the time to really care about some stuff. For example, with Andrea's VM, he just got one VM and then he switched it to another: Boom! He didn't think about all the issues involved with this. I wouldn't have done that the way he did.
Il a 18 ans, il travaille sur Linux depuis qu'il a 14 ans, il donne des leçons à Linus... et, en l'occurence, il a raison !