Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758606AbZDIU6W (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752080AbZDIU6L (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:58:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46594 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756521AbZDIU6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:58:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Pavel Machek cc: Alan Cox , Matthew Garrett , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Jens Axboe , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make relatime default In-Reply-To: <20090409194624.GB1403@ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20090326113705.GV32307@mit.edu> <20090326140312.GB14822@elte.hu> <20090326144707.GA6239@mit.edu> <20090326170714.GF6239@mit.edu> <20090326174956.GB7198@srcf.ucam.org> <20090326175314.GC7198@srcf.ucam.org> <20090326184838.26166549@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090409194624.GB1403@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 24 On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 'No changes of ABI in stable series?' (a) we don't have a stable series any more and (b) this isn't an abi change, it's a system management change. If you don't think we can make those, then I assume that you also claim that we can't do thigns like commit 1b5e62b42, which doubled the writeback dirty thresholds, or any of the things that changed how dirty accounting was done in the first place? I would _love_ for distros to do the sane thing, but they don't. That's a fact. Linus -- 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/