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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:43:34PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:52:29AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Sure, no one stops you from playing around with new semantics.  But please
> > don't add them to the linux kernel stable series until we have semantics we
> > a) want to stick to for a while and b) actually work.
> 
> He's not proposing to add it to 2.4, is he?

We're talking about 2.6 here.  2.4 is the obsolete kernel series these days.