Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:18:14 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > This kind of lock shifting is a major upheaval. It invalidates any device > > driver testing done in the past weeks when we have been slowly moving towards > > more stability. > > I much rather do it now than later. Later means either: (a) during 2.4.x > or (b) early in 2.5.x. > > (a) is obviously impossiblme. 'Nuff said. > > (b) means that we'll have these subtle incomptibilities between the > release kernel and the development kernel, and backporting of fixes > etc suddenly becomes much harder.
But at some point you need to cut a new kernel version and live with it.
> The (b) kind of inconsistency is unavoidable, but I'd rather avoid > it for the "mindless" kind of lock movement that affects a lot of > drivers and filesystems, yet is basically very simple ("mindless" != > "easy").
Except it will cost us time and stability. Where do you draw the line?
Or even better: when will 2.4 be really, really, *really* released?
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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