From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Xiafs inclusion in 2.5?
Date: 31 Oct 2002 14:20:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apsab1$rv2$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DC18308.1040808@gmx.net
Followup to: <3DC18308.1040808@gmx.net>
By author: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2002-Q4@gmx.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello Linus,
>
> somewhere back in 2000, you wrote:
> > Who still remembers xiafs? We have 33 different filesystems in the kernel
> > tree - something that is quite impressive, and something that I don't
> > think anybody else has ever tried to support. But we could have had 34..
>
> Out of curiosity, would you reaccept xiafs in 2.5, if it was cleaned up and
> forward ported to use the new interfaces?
> And if you accept it, what's the latest date I could submit it? Technically,
> it is a regression, ;-) so the feature freeze date might not apply.
>
Not to be flippant, but really... what's the point?
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-31 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-31 19:22 Xiafs inclusion in 2.5? Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2002-10-31 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-10-31 23:17 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2002-10-31 23:23 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-31 23:39 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2002-11-01 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-01 2:49 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-11-01 3:41 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2002-11-01 8:41 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-11-01 20:17 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-01 21:55 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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