[PATCH 000/206] Staging: hv: Cleanup hv drivers
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Wed May 11 14:52:41 UTC 2011
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 07:48:32AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:56:34AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > 3) Simplifies the code across the board eliminating
> > unnecessary code and data structure layering. Prior to
> > this restructuring there were about 11,000 lines of code
> > in the hv directory. After this cleanup, there are about
> > 8500 lines of code.
>
> That's great, remember how many lines were at the beginning? I think it
> was over 40000 or so, but I could be wrong, I should go and dig up the
> original code dump from so long ago to be sure...
Nope, sorry, my mistake, it was "only" 20637 lines. Still that great of
a code size decrease is proof that moving things into the main kernel
makes sense from a simple "lines-of-code to maintain and have possible
bugs" standpoint.
thanks,
greg k-h
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