linux-kernel - Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:30:56 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:22:01 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > Can we rather make this something that people can enable with a
> > "fastboot" option and is disabled by default? At least that way the
> > ATA people can see the problem, and don't just forget about it,
> > since we want it fixed.
> 
> Makes some sense - although the inode one should just take a hike at
> this point. Can the fastboot option live under staging perhaps - its
> analogous to staging drivers although clearly the code doesn't go
> there in this case ?
> 
> The trouble otherwise is "fast boot" sounds like something good for
> people to turn on, but right now it's the reverse.

I just coded it as a kernel command line option only

that's very much a "I know what I'm doing" kind of thng.


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