From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, dwmw2@infradead.org,
miklos@szeredi.hu, me@bobcopeland.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:11:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415131120.f1bab12a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415192432.GB1677@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:24:32 +0300
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Look, I have repeatedly described the reason why it is probable a poor
> > tradeoff to merge code such as this. The only response has been "well
> > we've done it before", which is largely a non-reason.
> >...
>
> It seems you missed the first point in my email:
>
> We do not have a stable API for external modules, and part of the deal
> is that external modules have the chance of entering the kernel where
> they will get API changes automatically.
>
>
> Plus my other point that one might argue that OMFS adds support for some
> hardware in which case a recent commandment by Linus would require it
> has to be merged...
That's lawyerly trickery, sorry. Take some set of guidelines and then say
"you are thereby committed to doing X".
We're not committed to doing anything and it would be bad if we were.
Let's apply common sense and judgement to each case on its own.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-12 22:58 [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Bob Copeland
2008-04-13 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 3:33 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-13 3:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 4:41 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-13 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-13 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 8:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-13 10:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-13 21:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-13 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-13 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 1:32 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-14 5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 14:20 ` Chris Mason
2008-04-14 16:36 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-14 16:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 17:18 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-14 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 20:29 ` david
2008-04-18 13:13 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-14 20:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-14 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 22:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-04-14 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 23:09 ` SL Baur
2008-04-14 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-04-14 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 8:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 9:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 9:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 9:21 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 10:09 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-14 10:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 10:36 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-14 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-15 15:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-15 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-15 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-15 21:46 ` david m. richter
2008-04-15 19:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-15 20:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-15 20:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 7:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 8:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-04-14 8:26 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 9:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-14 9:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 11:05 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-14 12:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 11:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-14 11:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 12:26 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 22:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-15 11:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-15 15:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-17 1:08 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-17 6:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-17 8:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-14 0:45 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-14 7:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-18 10:30 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-18 11:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 12:20 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-18 12:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 16:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-18 16:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 13:51 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-18 14:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-04-18 14:43 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-18 17:35 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-18 17:48 ` Bob Copeland
2008-04-18 12:46 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-13 9:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-13 10:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 3:14 ` Erez Zadok
[not found] <14725485.776281208170999085.JavaMail.szaka@kolumbus.fi>
2008-04-14 12:46 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-14 13:15 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-04-14 16:12 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
[not found] <10224488.783261208172602425.JavaMail.szaka@kolumbus.fi>
2008-04-15 0:11 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-04-15 15:05 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] <aiwLk-3mc-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <aiwLk-3mc-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <aiwLk-3mc-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-04-16 9:56 ` Bodo Eggert
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