From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264096AbUEMLMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 07:12:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264098AbUEMLMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 07:12:13 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:42769 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264096AbUEMLMJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 07:12:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:12:06 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm2 Message-ID: <20040513121206.A8620@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040513032736.40651f8e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513114520.A8442@infradead.org> <20040513035134.2e9013ea.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040513035134.2e9013ea.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:51:34AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:51:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Once I'm convinced that kernel.org kernels will be able to run applications > which vendor kernels will run, sure. > > We're nowhere near that, and your continual whining gets us no closer. Sorry, but this argumentation is utter bullshit. If $VENDORKERNEL/freebsd/sco/windows2000 runs $APP and we don't, what does this mean? Right, exactly nothing. Follwoing that path of argumentation we could also merge the almost 1000 patches from SuSE's tree because you can be pretty sure some IHV or ISV relies on it. I've talked to three persons at Oracle and neither likes it at all, in fact en Oracle employee is working on doing quota for hugetlbfs which fixes this properly. Merging some horrible hacks that completly change the authorization model (for a special case, that is) in the middle of stable series doesn't get us anywhere, except into a horrible unmaintable mess.