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Message-ID: <20090109133056.01d278c4@infradead.org> 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. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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