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Message-ID: <20080102211655.GC15898@does.not.exist> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:16:55 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com> Cc: sct@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Wed, 2 Jan 2008 03:32:18 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> escribió: > > > It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, > > but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel > > offered it - and that's definitely not intended. > > But isn't that the whole purpose of having ext4 snapshots in the stable kernel - to > allow people to try it? ext4 has quite an unusual development model for kernel code, other code in the state of ext4 is usually only in -mm and not in stable kernels. Stable kernels are mainly meant for usage, not for trying stuff. And although I see a point in perhaps shipping some not-yet-perfect device drivers for otherwise unsupported hardware or some not-yet-perfect filesystems required for accessing foreign (non-Linux) filesystems, I don't see any point in offering a WIP Linux-only filesystem in stable kernels. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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