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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo,
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:10:01 +0100
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On February 27, 2002 12:07 am, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 17:39, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I'd really like to see XFS go in, but don't you think 2.5 is the place,
> > with a view to 2.4 submission in due course?
> 
> This is my thinking, but the way 2.5 is diverging the argument that
> xfs being stable in 2.5 prior to going into 2.4 probably will not mean
> too much at the end of the day since the interfaces will probably
> have diverged so much by then - and the interfaces are where the
> nasties tend to come out. The core of XFS is pretty darn stable.

It will mean a lot.  It will mean Linus signed off on the integration,
and that the issues were examined.  Marcelo is perfectly capable of
determining what the additional 2.4 issues are, if any.

-- 
Daniel
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