From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:49:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Woodhouse , Miklos Szeredi , hch@infradead.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:59413 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752637AbYDMWyC (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:54:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > I guess I can keep making this point in various ways until someone > actually notices it: > > This filesystem has only 20 users. At the moment. And that probably exceeds Amiga users, 386 users, some of the serial port users, several network card users ... In the past we've merged drivers for network cards where only two existed in the world. Linus has repeatedly stated he wants to see stuff people are using getting in. Good clean code that doesn't affect the core is good reference material. I think you are (unusually) the one out of step here ? Alan