Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264151AbTE0Uwj (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264158AbTE0Uwi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:52:38 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:31978 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264151AbTE0Uwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:52:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:05:18 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jens Axboe Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , manish , Christian Klose Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Message-ID: <20030527210518.GQ8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jens Axboe , Marc-Christian Petersen , Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , manish , Christian Klose References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <200305272032.03645.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030527201028.GJ3767@dualathlon.random> <200305272224.22567.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030527205516.GZ845@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030527205516.GZ845@suse.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 19 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:55:16PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > But still, why on earth waste your time with something like this now > when we are so close to 2.6? 2.4 is a stable code base, it should stay > that way. I'm really not interested in more esoteric 2.4 backports, the > vendor kernels are bad enough as it is. They've backported everything else, so I guess it stood to reason it'd happen eventually. I, for one, got a good laugh out of it. =) Makes me wonder if the 2.4 distro backport trees' diffs are bigger than 2.4 itself yet. -- wli - 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/