Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:56:34 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 IDE 91 |
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:17:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > And finally a small plea for more testing. Do you even test before > blindly sending patches off to Linus?! Sometimes just watching how > quickly these big patches appears makes it impossible that they have > gotten any kind of testing other than the 'hey it compiles', which I > think it just way too little for something that could possible screw > peoples data up very badly. Frankly, _I'm_ too scared to run 2.5 IDE > currently. The success ratio of posted over working patches is too big.
Add my voice to these concerns. At the very least the code should have been moved into a second tree to allow people to work with the old stable driver as needed.
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