Kernel topics on the radar

And yet another person chiming in here to say they are a huge fan of a "view of the lands" posts like this. It helps us who work with the kernel but not lurk the mailing lists keep a finger on the pulse of upstream.

While the Google Fibers patch seems interesting, I have serious qualms on anything from Google being subject to the kernels requirement of never breaking userspace, and therefore requiring that API be supported forever. Google is known to throw stuff at the wall and quickly abandon it if it falls out of grace, which is an extremely incompatible perspective on what the Linux kernel does. And to submit it without any example code is just, well, to me seems like a bad faith submission and makes me feel it should be looked with even more scrutiy than other such feature additions (in similar scope).