Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:15:06 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22 timeline was RE: 2.4.21-rc7 ACPI broken
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:40:54AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
>...
> I would personnally suggest that you classify the things using the 
> following filter :
> 	a) Server (SMP, SCSI, RAID, journaling filesystems, ...),
> 	b) laptop (ACPI, CPUFREQ, Software suspend, IDE power save,...),
> 	c) desktop (File system efficiency, new hardware support,...),
> 	d) all systems
>...

Why are journaling filesystems only for servers?
Is file system efficiency not relevant on servers?

The important sections are more likely (ordered by priority):
- bug fixes (e.g. aic7xxx)
- support for additional hardware (e.g. ACPI update)
- new features (e.g. XFS)

These groups are not mutual exclusive, e.g. the ACPI update also 
includes new features.

The important thing is that this is inside a stable kernel series and an 
update that makes things better for 100 people but makes things worse 
for one person is IMHO bad since it's a regression for one person.

cu
Adrian

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