Re: IDE Patch (fwd)

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:59:43 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Rene Rebe wrote:
> >
> > I also vote for inclusion in 2.4.
>
> I spent a couple of hours beating the crap out of it,
> and none actually came out. I'd vote for prompt inclusion
> in 2.5, and inclusion in 2.4.x-pre1 when it's shown to be
> stable.

I vote for doing the reverse. The 2.4 codebase is the more tested, the 2.5
is a forward-port. Given all the related block changes still settling out
in 2.5, changing IDE might make block layer/IDE issues hard to sort out.
Let's see it in the next 2.4.x-pre1.

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