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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by account42 on Friday June 14, 2024 @03:48AM (#40678569)
Unless you are going to provide examples then I am going to assume that " kernel-politics" refers to things like rejecting "drivers" that can only used with a closed source userspace blob. In those cases the reasons have technical merit - how are the kernel developers supposed to maintain an effectively proprietary API without any idea how it is being used.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by lmm on Sunday June 16, 2024 @06:05PM (#40700509)
No, I'm talking about cases of not liking the way of doing things, e.g. how we ended up with CFS which was a watered-down reimplementation. (ReiserFSv4 is another example of code that met the technical bar and was rejected for purely non-technical reasons, as much as few would disagree with that).
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