Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261384AbVAGMOR (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:14:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261386AbVAGMOQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:14:16 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.193]:670 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261384AbVAGMOD (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:14:03 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=V97Vc+DkyVdP1t2B6cPVxthoe8NyWLDfM/qpeI/IZyNV1u5veqzhudjcezgPMl2ENhoEQGGyXMKiLTMBj6pZ2wpIZ2j5ESqTf6+pG+aZFXIqjIFfy98pd+L/xg7YD6huXUORZBAHACNyWB5WL2iXx9I+5ZImrrTkX3jZMLYfF1k= Message-ID: <69304d11050107041468805ff1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:14:03 +0100 From: Antonio Vargas Reply-To: Antonio Vargas To: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports In-Reply-To: <20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106234123.GA27869@infradead.org> <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> <20050107090014.GA24946@elte.hu> <20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1858 Lines: 42 On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:15:42 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:00:14AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > so my strong position is that even asking for any 'warning period' for > > changes in VFS internals (including exports/unexports) would be > > extremely rude. It would be rude not only towards the authors and > > maintainers of mainline VFS code, but also towards other external > > trees/drivers who do _not_ ask for any special status and accept the > > deal: "follow internals, notice kernel people if they do bad stuff > > (extremely rare in my case) and fix/redesign stuff if the external tree > > is broken (much more common)". > > > > Unfortunately you don't have the financial and political powers IBM > has, so your opinion doesn't matter as much. Maybe you should become > OSDL member to influence the direction of Linux development. > > > > - > 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/ > If a filesystem is binary-only, then it should get the same treatment as other binary-only things like graphic drivers and machine-virtualization drivers: either stay on a designated kernel version or else fix your driver so it work with mainline. -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo que si son. - 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/