Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753528AbZAIQy7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:54:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752467AbZAIQyt (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:54:49 -0500 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:41254 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752414AbZAIQys (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:54:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:54:22 +0100 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Phil Oester Cc: Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 21 On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote: > > Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels > for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, > so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost > all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it??? In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it, reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems. Jörn -- to show off how geeky they were. -- Rob Enderle -- 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/