Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:46:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Are we *really* in a feature freeze? |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > Hmm.. > 2.1.120 seems to add QNX4 file system support. > > Are we breaking our own little rules? ;-)
Sigh. QNX does not affect anything outside of itself. It's a single unit. We even add things like this to 2.0 kernels all the time. If QNXfs is broken it won't make debugging the rest of the kernel harder.
Feature freeses should only free features that affect more then one little function.
The only way this would affect anything is if someone who compiled and loaded QNXfs was expirencing crashes. In that case I would say, turn off QNXfs, does it still crash? If no, well thats what you have to deal with when you turn on features marked as 'expermental'. (yes, we have expermental features in stable kernels).
Feature freeze means as few core changes as possible.
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