Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Jun 07 2009 - 11:10:43 EST


> > This isn't about technical merits - it is about *risk*. You don't submit
>
> fs/partitions/check.c change doesn't influence anything other that behavior
> of ide-gd driver and has been ACK-ed by Al Viro.

What part of "risk" don't you understand ? Any change to core code paths
is a risk, submitting it just before 2.6.30 is plain stupid.

> > patches to core code to add new features just before the final release.
>
> This is not a feature but really a bug fix (requested by you along other
> people in the past).

Its not an urgent this release doom-disaster fix - its a run of the mill
feature improvement that fixes up a long term issue and wants testing in
quantity before merging and nicely integrating so other storage people
are happy with it.
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