From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
xavier.bestel@free.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfs
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:46:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021112104650.GA322@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021112102535.1f94f50d.spyro@f2s.com>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:25:35AM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> > Again, WE ARE IN FEATURE FREEZE.
> And since when did feature freeze affect, as the guy said, *purely*
> userspace implementations?
Since it would a *feature* to move it out of kernel space.
To reiterate : _FEATURE_ _FREEZE_. Nothing[1] new[2]
should be going into mainline at this point.
We should now be in the stabilising period, where we don't require
testers to have to upgrade their userspace every fortnight.
Dave
[1] Rusty's modules rewrite and whatever else Linus queed up
seems to have exemption from this rule. Hopefully there
isn't too much of this stuff.
[2] Where 'new' can also mean 'bloody large reimplementation'
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-12 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 9:32 devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 9:43 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 9:49 ` devfs john slee
2002-11-12 10:01 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-11-12 12:51 ` devfs Oliver Neukum
2002-11-13 10:48 ` hotplug (was devfs) Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 17:02 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 18:06 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 18:04 ` Greg KH
2002-11-14 11:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-11-12 10:05 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 10:04 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 10:25 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 10:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-12 11:08 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:24 ` devfs Rando Christensen
2002-11-12 13:30 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 14:53 ` devfs Alan Cox
2002-11-12 15:37 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:29 ` devfs Helge Hafting
2002-11-12 15:40 ` devfs Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-18 9:10 cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 9:16 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:10 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:20 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 18:29 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:36 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 21:53 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-08-18 22:26 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 22:47 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 23:03 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 23:15 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-21 4:49 ` devfs Richard Gooch
2002-08-21 5:03 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-19 1:06 ` devfs Olivier Galibert
2002-08-19 2:01 ` devfs Greg KH
2002-08-18 23:18 ` devfs Barry K. Nathan
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