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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:23:45 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2001-03-06T16:56:32,
>    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>
> > 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.
>
> When will 2.5 be forked?
>
> If anyone wants to redesign the SCSI layer, by all means, DO NOT
> STOP HIM! ;-)

If somebody is able to redesign the SCSI layer, I'm *sure*
that person will be able to maintain a separate patch for
some time ...

regards,

Rik
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