Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggests delaying reiserfs integration)

From: Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 09:12:14 EST


On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> Linux development kernels have so much rope for a stupid user to hang
> themselves with that I frankly don't care when they try to do that without
> reading the documentation.
>
> I disagree to keep a needed an useful feature out of 2.4 for the sake that
> users may shot themselves in the feet when upgrading to the next development
> series.

        2.4->2.5 it might be okay to break things, but they should be working
to go from 2.4->2.6... Which is to say, a stable kernel to another stable
kernel. I suppose you could have it broken during all of 2.5, but that would
seem rather silly since it should be working in 2.6 really..

                Stephen

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