Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:33:08 -0800 (PST)
From: david@lang.hm
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Can we rather make this something that people can enable with a "fastboot"
>> option and is disabled by default? At least that way the ATA people can
>> see the problem, and don't just forget about it, since we want it fixed.
>
> Makes some sense - although the inode one should just take a hike at this
> point. Can the fastboot option live under staging perhaps - its analogous
> to staging drivers although clearly the code doesn't go there in this
> case ?
>
> The trouble otherwise is "fast boot" sounds like something good for
> people to turn on, but right now it's the reverse.

isn't this like OPTIMIZE_INLINE?

David Lang
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