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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:08:34 +0000
From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:46:50 +0000
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:

> > 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.

nothing new WOULD be going in. nor would devfs need to move out - just
disable it. It *is* still an option, is it not?

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

its not a kernel issue anymore, if its totally in userspace, is it?
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