On 10/17/2013 11:27 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/733595-all-about-the-linux-kernel-cgroups-redesign > > Not sure if I read that just right... but since nobody is doing cgroup > management besides systemd, in practice the cgroups implementation in > Linux wasn't very consistent. So since systemd is doing it, their work > is helping shape the kernel's cgroups api? > > Interesting... >
>From my perspective it looks like systemd developers are trying to push their ideas into the kernel, almost like they intend to merge systemd *with* the kernel. If systemd is the only implementation of cgroups and their developers are working on cgroup support in the kernel, it spells calamity given their history of evangelism and zealotry. I truly wish I understood why a single userland program and its developers are being given the keys to an entire subsystem of the kernel. Their changes to udev have proven to be a headache for users, and the kernel is held to a much higher standard of stability and interoperability. In addition, the top-level developers of systemd (and GNOME, and the now-deprecated consolekit/polkit/udisks/etc) are employed by a for-profit company (Red Hat), which has a vested interest in shaping Linux as a platform. They and other corporations cannot be trusted with stuff like this... I'd like to see what Linus has to say about this if/when he finds out. He's not impressed with Sievers or Poettering. Personally I'd like to see them ostracized from the community and contained to their own distro, where they belong.
