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New Linux CPU Hot-Plugging Works Out "Nightmare"
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Originally posted by dante View PostI hope i'm wrong but i think Linux kernel developers are forgetting to maintain the quality of code, adding features to the system is important but the quality should come on top of priority.
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Originally posted by kaprikawn View PostForgive my ignorance, but what exactly is cpu hot-plugging? Is it, as the name implies, installing and removing a cpu while the machine is powered on? If so, I guess this is server-level stuff, I can't see me needing to (or indeed being able to) swap out the cpu on my desktop.
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This sounds like a very common pattern:
- subsystem starts simple and grows incrementally
- design abstraction which was probably OK for the initial code is not sufficient to deal with growing complexity
- developers get together at conference and agree on how it should be done
- one developer writes first pass of code following new model
- old code tossed over nearest clump of cactus and badmouthed even by the people who wrote it
The difference here seems to be that the author of the new code also authored a particularly colourful description of the old codeTest signature
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