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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29
On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
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> Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
> for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days,
> so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost
> all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???

In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid
mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it,
reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems.

Jörn

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