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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:05:22 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:59:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > Linus, please backout that patch until we a) have modutils that support
> > both the new and old code and b) support at least such basic features
> > as parsing modules.conf and supporting parameters.
> 
> Quite frankly, at this time a backout means that the thing doesn't go in 
> _at_all_.

Probably.  Or just the non-intrusive parts.

> It came in before the feature freeze, but I decided that instead of having 
> a totally hectic time I woul dmerge stuff that I got before the freeze at 
> my own leisure, but backing it out now would be basically saying it's not 
> going into 2.6.x. And I think it's worth it.

I don't think it's a must have and absolutely don't think it's worth
breaking about everything at this stage.  Please tell me why rusty can't
send a large number of non-intrusive patches that do one thing at a
time just like everyone else?  
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