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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:46:50 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:25:35AM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
 > > 	Again, WE ARE IN FEATURE FREEZE.
 > And since when did feature freeze affect, as the guy said, *purely*
 > userspace implementations?

 Since it would a *feature* to move it out of kernel space.
 To reiterate : _FEATURE_ _FREEZE_. Nothing[1] new[2]
 should be going into mainline at this point.

 We should now be in the stabilising period, where we don't require
 testers to have to upgrade their userspace every fortnight.

		Dave

[1] Rusty's modules rewrite and whatever else Linus queed up
    seems to have exemption from this rule. Hopefully there
    isn't too much of this stuff.
[2] Where 'new' can also mean 'bloody large reimplementation'
 
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| SuSE Labs
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