Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:46:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:50:38 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:25273 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:55:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:54:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: Richard Gooch cc: Pierre Rousselet , Marcelo Tosatti , Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.1-pre5 not easy to boot with devfs In-Reply-To: <200112021755.fB2Hthl10340@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > Is that worth the effort? Hopefully by 2.4.17-rc I'll have fixed the > bug, so it won't be an issue. Let me get it straight - you had just merged an alpha-quality code into the tree. It has a chance to get debugged, but right now we have a _big_ change turning a lot of allocations into dynamic, yodda, yodda. And it's one big step - not split into gradual massage of code. And you expect that there will be no leaks/dangling pointers aside of that one? - 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/