From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:54:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Oester Return-path: Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:41254 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752414AbZAIQys (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:54:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote: >=20 > Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels > for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, > so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost > all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it??= ? In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it, reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems. J=C3=B6rn --=20 to show off how geeky they were. -- Rob Enderle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html