Lead developer couldn't work well with others, is what it really comes down to. The kernel is run that way for a reason, and if the lead Dev just had some patience, it wouldn't have ended this way.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Linus has more to worry about than a single experimental FS in a kernel that runs the world. Kent can go have his drama off by himself for a while.

[+] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oh sure. But it seems like the proper response should have been to reject the last minute changes instead of breaking user space by throwing out an entire filesystem that has been in the kernel for 10 years.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

It hasn't been removed. They're just not accepting patches like they do for maintained subsystems. What's thrown out, exactly?

Also 10 years? No. Try less than 2. It was merged in Linux 6.7

[–] who@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago

When someone is persistently disruptive, you can choose to spend your days babysitting and correcting them, or you can accept that they are unwilling or unable to change, show them to the door, and reclaim your time.

Linus has been doing the former for quite a while. Looks like he has now moved on to the latter. Seems like the proper response to me.

10 years

I think that just shows that Linus has been admirably patient with Kent.

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Besides this change not breaking user space, the "don't break user space" rule has never meant that the kernel cannot drop support for file systems, devices, or even entire architectures