Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:14:03 +0100 | From | Antonio Vargas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports |
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:15:42 +0000, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:00:14AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > so my strong position is that even asking for any 'warning period' for > > changes in VFS internals (including exports/unexports) would be > > extremely rude. It would be rude not only towards the authors and > > maintainers of mainline VFS code, but also towards other external > > trees/drivers who do _not_ ask for any special status and accept the > > deal: "follow internals, notice kernel people if they do bad stuff > > (extremely rare in my case) and fix/redesign stuff if the external tree > > is broken (much more common)". > > <sarcasm> > <osdl-salespitch> > Unfortunately you don't have the financial and political powers IBM > has, so your opinion doesn't matter as much. Maybe you should become > OSDL member to influence the direction of Linux development. > </osdl-salespitch> > </sarcasm> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
If a filesystem is binary-only, then it should get the same treatment as other binary-only things like graphic drivers and machine-virtualization drivers: either stay on a designated kernel version or else fix your driver so it work with mainline.
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