Linux Kernel to Fork?

Ninjy writes "Techworld has a story up about the possibility of the 2.7 kernel forking to accomodate large patch sets. Will this actually happen, and will the community back such a decision? "

Comments

Run, Chicken Little, Run!

[Minwee]

Oh no! If this sort of thing is allowed to happen then before long we will start seeing seperate kernel forks for people like Alan Cox, Andrea Arcangeli and Hans Reiser. It could even lead to every major Linux distribution applying their own patches to their own forked kernels.

Then where would we be?

Is Mr. Krill some sort of AI?

[Maljin Jolt]

I have read the article three times but still it looks to me like a random collection of irrelevant sentences unrelated to each other. Maybe it would make more sense if Paul Krill himself was written in lisp, or drank less if he's a real biological entity. This article looks like a random google cache copy and paste made in php.

Kernel forking

[YetAnotherName]

For the kernel itself to support fork(2), you'd have to have a meta-OS running the kernel, similar to a supervisor OS running as a user task in Mach.

But I can see things deteriorating rapidly: someone will want vfork for kernels, someone else will implement kernel-to-kernel pipes, someone else will make vfork obsolete, someone will complain about kernels not getting SIGCHLDs from their child kernels, etc.

What? No, of I course I didn't read the fsck'n article ... not even the summary!

Re:From the article...

[chris mazuc]

Oh, man. You hit a button... I F-ING HATE PACKAGE MANAGERS UNDER LINUX. I try and update program X. Oh oh, dependency. Chase that down. That creates two more dependencies. Chase those down. Soon it cascades into a total nightmare.

ever used apt?