Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> That's what we largely had with the Xen merge, for example. A lot of the 
> code had been around for basically _forever_, and the people involved in 
> reviewing it got really tired of it, and there was no way in *hell* a new 
> person would ever start reviewing the huge backlog. Once it is massive, 
> it's just too massive.
>   

Heh.  The Xen code in the kernel now is a complete rewrite, with only 
trace elements from the original patchset.  And yes, that's partly 
because the original patches were unreviewable.

    J
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