linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions with patches

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Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 13:13:52 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
CC:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, tes@....com
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions with patches

David Chinner wrote:
> Patience, please. We like to have some QA coverage on a changes that
> affect the writeback path in such a subtle manner before saying it
> is good to go. Just releasing the fix into the main tree would be
> irresponsible as there is the real possibility of the fix causing
> other subtle corruption problems.
>   

Oh, yes, I completely agree.  But cooking in -mm isn't incompatible with
that.

    J
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