From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757267AbYDMWyT (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:54:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752756AbYDMWyE (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:54:04 -0400 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 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:49:20 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Woodhouse , Miklos Szeredi , hch@infradead.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-ID: <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> In-Reply-To: <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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