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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:59:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
cc: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>, <andre@linux-ide.org>,
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Subject: Re: IDE Patch (fwd)
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Rene Rebe wrote:
> >
> > I also vote for inclusion in 2.4.
>
> I spent a couple of hours beating the crap out of it,
> and none actually came out.  I'd vote for prompt inclusion
> in 2.5, and inclusion in 2.4.x-pre1 when it's shown to be
> stable.

I vote for doing the reverse. The 2.4 codebase is the more tested, the 2.5
is a forward-port. Given all the related block changes still settling out
in 2.5, changing IDE might make block layer/IDE issues hard to sort out.
Let's see it in the next 2.4.x-pre1.

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