On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote: > > Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels > for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, > so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost > all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it??? In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it, reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems. Jörn -- to show off how geeky they were. -- Rob Enderle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
