Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:11:37 -0500 |
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On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:32:56 -0400, Horst von Brand said: > This kind of changes in the middle of feature freeze are exactly what gets > you to 2.5 years.
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:43:31PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > So people should have started working on it sooner. If people really think > they need a 32bit dev_t for their $BIGNUM of disks (and I still don't buy > that argument) we should just introduce it and use it only for block devices > (which already are fixed up for this) and stay with the old 8+8 split for > character devices. Note that Linux is about doing stuff right, not fast.
*shrug* In the end, it's Linus's call on how to balance the release date against the features that make it in. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |