From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: grantma@anathoth.gen.nz (Matthew Grant)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
grantma@anathoth.gen.nz (Matthew Grant),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New SYM53C8XX driver in 2.4.3-ac5 FIXES CD Writing!!!!
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:44:54 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14oDFI-0003or-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14oD8K-0002oj-00@zion.int.anathoth.gen.nz> from "Matthew Grant" at Apr 14, 2001 11:37:43 AM
>
> A core kernel developer NEEDS to get these features straightened out properly
> in a clean fashion. People WANT reiserfs integrated and working with LVM and
Note _clean_
> It does not look like that much work is needed to fix the stuff the base kernel
> and get better integration of these features. The rough edges on them make us
> look like a bunch of amatuers.
Lots of work needs doing. The entire quota code needs rewriting and that won't
happen until 2.5. The reiser+nfs stuff is probably also 2.5
> Alan, will you look into it as a project???
Not interested. Now is stabilizing time, not stuffing crap into the kernel tree
time. Vendors can (and will) ship stuff which is workable but not clean, and
they will hopefully over time fix up the stuff they care about and submit it.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-13 23:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <E14o3J0-0002q2-00@the-village.bc.nu>
2001-04-13 23:20 ` Matthew Grant
2001-04-13 23:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 23:37 ` Matthew Grant
2001-04-13 23:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-04-14 0:02 ` Matthew Grant
2001-04-14 0:08 ` 2.5 and beyond (was Re: New SYM53C8XX driver in 2.4.3-ac5 FIXES CD Writing!!!!) Jeff Garzik
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