Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755546AbZAIUMW (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:12:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752491AbZAIUMF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:12:05 -0500 Received: from linode.davidb.org ([72.14.176.16]:54481 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753155AbZAIUME (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:12:04 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2056 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:12:03 EST Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:37:39 -0800 From: David Brown To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Phil Oester , 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: <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 21 On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:54:22PM +0100, J?rn Engel wrote: >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. Squashfs is readonly from the kernel. The images are created with userspace tools. David -- 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/