Re: o_sync in vfat driver

[col-pepper]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:17:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> > Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he  
> > should
> > have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use
> > sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel.
>
> or in HAL. really.

It may unfairly reflect on HAL in the users' mind but hal still does  
exactly what it is set up to do.

> there was a very long discussion abuot kernel stability.
> The problem is that once depending on the absence of a feature becomes
> ABI ... there is a big problem.

It was not totally absent. If it was absent no-one would configure  
anything to use it anyway. It seems that big problem was that it  
functionality was fundamentlly changed but it was passed on like a minor  
mod that no-one needed to worry about and the doc was not updated at the  
time.
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