We'll see :-)

Posted Apr 30, 2011 10:15 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Poettering: Why systemd? by viro
Parent article: Poettering: Why systemd?

For values of fix including "rip the FPOS out"? Worked for devfs, eventually...

Well, it worked for devfs because few major distributions relied on it (as I can recall the only distribution which required the use of devfs was Gentoo... and it was not all that major). If systemd will be adopted widely enough cgroups will be kept around in one form or another. In the worst case it'll be just a fork which real distributions use and another one which is mainstream and which noone uses.

_You_ want to use the damn thing; I'm perfectly fine configuring it out for all my boxen. IOW, you need to fix that abortion more than I do. Any additional questions?

Yup. Why do you think users need a fix? As far as they are concerned the thing works. If (and when) you decide to rip "that abortion" out they will have a problem - or you will do. It depends on number of users, really. Upstream linux kernel is pretty much irrelevant for most users already (because there are more Android and embedded users then desktop users - and these kernels often diverge from upstream quite severely), I fail to see why sky will fall on earth if server and desktop will go this way too.