Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 16:14:21 EST


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> you _should_ also test this code out even before the freeze. The IDE layer
> shouldn't be all that scary any more, and while there are still silly
> things like trivially non-compiling setups etc, it's generally a good idea
> to try things out as widely as possible before it's getting too late to
> complain about things..

What about the 64bit sector_t (aka >2TB blockdevice) patches. IMHO they're
a must-have for 2.6 (people already ask for backporting them to 2.4..) and
last time I check Peter had a BK tree with nicely split changesets.

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