Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:07:12 +0100


In article <200202260135.18913.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> you wrote:
> Without them we do _NOT_ calm the flamewar against Linux's 2.4 VM.

-aa VM is too big an uncommented - to get it into mainline someone needs
to feed it in chunks and back out obviously wrong hunks like reversing
bugfixes done in the mainline.

Other -aa parts are much saner and if no one else does it will feed big
parts to Marcelo.

> Second, it is time for the outstanding ReiserFS patches.

Maybe the reiserfs folks should submit them then?

> If we are somewhat risky we put Ingo's GREAT O(1)-scheduler in, too.

Kill source compatiblity for drivers -> no way.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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