3) Added features and complexity makes it more difficult to maintain the
kernel (you could say this is a variant of 1)
4) Patches that have only a little debugging/etc. value are probably
useful, but mainly for a specific set of people, and this would seem to be
best handled by external patches.
> 1) General increase in #ifdef'd code. This actually seems like
> a pretty good argument, but I haven't seen anyone mention it
> specifically.
Always implied from maintenance point-of-view.
-- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
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