Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:42:34 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

ok sure, that's not hard. I'll get that going, hopefully before the end
of the day



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