Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> said upstream patch was merged by Linus for a short while and then >> reverted for quality reasons.... so that would be a strong indication >> of "maybe not a good idea" > > Even better... everyone benefits by not being exposed to a poor quality patch. > > The question, which I can't personally answer, becomes what is it > going to take to clean this patch up so it can be upstreamed. It looks like it's already underway, at least as far as the author is concerned. From http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml : Update as of 2008-03-15: Several maintainers in the Linux kernel have started to reconsider their position on the feature. The patch as even made a brief appearance in some development versions of the kernel 2.6.25 (it has been reverted because deemed too likely to bring bugs, but a new approach, patch v0.9, is already available for next development cycle). -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
