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Hi Adrian,

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Why not merge it and mark it experimental then ? In fact, this is about
> > what you're looking for : reduced merge hassle and more testers.
>
>  Andi already answered that one:
>
> "Merging file systems too early can quickly ruin their name and that
>   taint is hard to ever get rid again then (e.g. happened to JFS)"
>
>  And a stable kernel shouldn't be something for getting "more testers",
>  it should be for tested code ready to be used in production.
>  What you call "more testers" would be people who try it in production
>  (e.g. to overcome shortcomings of JFFS2) thinking it was stable.
>
>  And no, EXPERIMENTAL in the kernel is not usable for keeping people from
>  trying known-whacky code.

I think ext4 already set the precedent that you _can_ do development
within the 2.6 series, no?