linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

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Message-ID: <20090607161133.699c6828@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:11:33 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

> > This isn't about technical merits - it is about *risk*. You don't submit
> 
> fs/partitions/check.c change doesn't influence anything other that behavior
> of ide-gd driver and has been ACK-ed by Al Viro.

What part of "risk" don't you understand ? Any change to core code paths
is a risk, submitting it just before 2.6.30 is plain stupid.

> > patches to core code to add new features just before the final release.
> 
> This is not a feature but really a bug fix (requested by you along other
> people in the past).

Its not an urgent this release doom-disaster fix - its a run of the mill
feature improvement that fixes up a long term issue and wants testing in
quantity before merging and nicely integrating so other storage people
are happy with it.
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