Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:42:34 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release |
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > I think it's better that we defer some of the asynchronous boot stuff to > 2.6.30 so that it can bake in -next for a bit. I would like to keep the > core infrastructure in place for 29, so that the various subsystem > patches etc can just use it in -next without generating dependencies in > the patch flow. > > for both libata and the inode delete very simple things can be done to > fix them, but I would feel a lot more comfortable giving these a ride > in -next.
Can we rather make this something that people can enable with a "fastboot" option and is disabled by default? At least that way the ATA people can see the problem, and don't just forget about it, since we want it fixed.
Linus
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