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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:22:58 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> I'm getting a notable increase in people sending me patches that
> do major things and should be 2.5 stuff. Please if you want to
> rewrite the VM completely, redesign the scsi layer and the like
> wait until 2.5.

VM folks can post their patches to linux-mm@kvack.org, where
we can play with things until 2.5 is forked.

I agree with Alan that we should keep all experimental stuff
out of 2.4, probably even out of linux-kernel ...

regards,

Rik
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