From: col-pepper@piments.com
To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Anton Altaparmakov" <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: o_sync in vfat driver
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:21:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.s5nm6gaoj68xd1@mail.piments.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141075047.2992.166.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:17:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
wrote:
>
>> Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he
>> should
>> have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use
>> sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel.
>
> or in HAL. really.
It may unfairly reflect on HAL in the users' mind but hal still does
exactly what it is set up to do.
>
>
> there was a very long discussion abuot kernel stability.
> The problem is that once depending on the absence of a feature becomes
> ABI ... there is a big problem.
>
>
>
It was not totally absent. If it was absent no-one would configure
anything to use it anyway. It seems that big problem was that it
functionality was fundamentlly changed but it was passed on like a minor
mod that no-one needed to worry about and the doc was not updated at the
time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 23:22 UTC|newest]
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2006-02-26 22:50 ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 13:28 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-27 13:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:06 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-02-27 14:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:41 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-02-27 21:04 ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 21:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 23:21 ` col-pepper [this message]
2006-02-27 21:32 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-27 23:21 ` col-pepper
2006-02-28 13:10 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-28 13:52 ` Sergei Organov
2006-02-28 15:18 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-28 16:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-28 17:23 ` Sergei Organov
2006-02-28 18:09 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-28 17:16 ` col-pepper
2006-02-28 22:38 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-28 23:10 ` why VM_SHM has been removed from mm.h? Kamran Karimi
2006-03-01 3:02 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-01 7:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-01 14:58 ` Kamran Karimi
2006-03-01 16:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-01 16:55 ` Kamran Karimi
2006-03-01 17:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-03-01 4:28 ` o_sync in vfat driver Kyle Moffett
2006-03-02 8:23 ` col-pepper
2006-03-02 8:32 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-28 16:11 ` Helge Hafting
2006-02-28 22:37 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-27 14:26 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-27 18:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-26 22:55 col-pepper
2006-02-26 23:08 col-pepper
2006-02-27 0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27 22:19 ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 18:47 ` Chris Mason
2006-02-28 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 19:48 ` Chris Mason
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2006-03-01 15:23 ` Chris Mason
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2006-03-02 13:45 ` Chris Mason
2006-03-02 14:07 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-02 17:01 ` Chris Mason
2006-03-02 18:14 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-29 2:13 ` Mathis Ahrens
2006-03-30 17:35 ` col-pepper
2006-02-28 0:52 ` Machida, Hiroyuki
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