From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:42:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901091241470.6528@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109070910.233e5f3c@infradead.org>
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.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 15:09 Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-09 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-01-09 20:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-09 21:22 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-09 21:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-09 22:33 ` david
2009-01-09 21:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
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