Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:44:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4 |
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Paul Jakma wrote: > alan seems to {want,prefer} small incremental/'obvious fix' patches. > but that isn't practically possible anymore. It would mean the NFS > guys would effectively have to redo the entire development cycle of > code they have written over the last year. [...] > So it is now at the stage where we either: > > 1. bite the bullet and sync stock nfs with nfs.sourceforge.net > > or > > 2. accept that stock 2.2 will never have decent NFS server > functionality, and wait for 2.4 to get stable.
I don't think anybody has to redo a lot of development in order to submit Alan small, focused patches. So option #3, break up the big NFS patch into small ones, still seems like the best option.
All this requires is a hacker, or hackers, who are interested enough in 2.2.x NFS to do something besides complaining :)
Jeff
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