Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131 | Date | 14 Dec 1998 02:07:24 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0zpN2N-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu> By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > His torvaldsness rejected a patch that made mlock callable from > > > inside drivers to do this sort of stuff. So thats not a > > > possibility. > > > > > > > Hang on... this sounds like exactly the kind of stuff that we want, > > but want in 2.3. I'd say we need 2.2 out ASAP more than anything > > else at this point. > > I was assuming from the start the discussion wasnt about 2.2 - or at least > not standard 2.2, its about 2.3 and this patch right as a seperate add on > for 2.2 >
Right, but then it seems perfectly correct of Linus to reject the patch; not because the patch itself is a Bad Thing[TM], but because of the pre-release code freeze.
-hpa
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