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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: RFC:  what's in a stable series?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:53:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030710085338.C28672@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55L.0307100040271.6629@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:54:52AM -0300

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:54:52AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> The quota patches have been around for a long time, and Jan Kara has been
> trying to include for sometime now (since 2.4.20/21). I tried to avoid it.
> 
> Now I realized the possible drawbacks of it are minimal (if any) compared
> to the overall advantage it brings to Linux 2.4.

Also the quota patches don't change any ABI or API - userland can still
use the old ABI in addition to the new one, 16bit ondisk quotas are
still supported and filesystems couldn't care less which implementation
it plugs into - the API is the same.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-10  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-10  1:06 RFC: what's in a stable series? Jeff Garzik
2003-07-10  1:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-10  3:34 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-10  7:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 11:22   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 12:36     ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-10  3:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-10  3:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-10  4:16   ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10  7:53     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10  8:25       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10  7:53   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-07-10 11:19     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 12:13       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-10 12:42         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 15:15           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 19:00             ` Jan Kara
2003-07-11  8:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11  9:21             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 15:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 15:11       ` Christoph Hellwig

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