Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:08:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:08:56 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:43792 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:08:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:14:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder Message-ID: <20021001221421.A7762@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 16 On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > you _should_ also test this code out even before the freeze. The IDE layer > shouldn't be all that scary any more, and while there are still silly > things like trivially non-compiling setups etc, it's generally a good idea > to try things out as widely as possible before it's getting too late to > complain about things.. What about the 64bit sector_t (aka >2TB blockdevice) patches. IMHO they're a must-have for 2.6 (people already ask for backporting them to 2.4..) and last time I check Peter had a BK tree with nicely split changesets. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/