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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:50:56 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ed Cogburn <edcogburn@hotpop.com>
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Subject: Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again
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On Sun, Jul 03 2005, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Jim Crilly wrote:
> 
> > From a user's standpoint, no of course not. But once it's included in the
> > mainline it's forced upon the kernel maintainers
> 
> 
> No it isn't.  Its just like any other optional feature.  If it stays
> unmaintained for too long it just gets removed from the kernel, this
> happens all the time.  This is another one of those non-issues that isn't
> relevent to this discussion but is being used to avoid the real issue.  Go

Yeah right, you really nailed that one, Ed. You obviously have years of
kernel maintenance under your belt.

-- 
Jens Axboe