Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:21:42 +0100 | | Subject | Re: o_sync in vfat driver | | From | col-pepper@piments ... |
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:17:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > >> Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he >> should >> have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use >> sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel. > > or in HAL. really.
It may unfairly reflect on HAL in the users' mind but hal still does exactly what it is set up to do.
> > > there was a very long discussion abuot kernel stability. > The problem is that once depending on the absence of a feature becomes > ABI ... there is a big problem. > > >
It was not totally absent. If it was absent no-one would configure anything to use it anyway. It seems that big problem was that it functionality was fundamentlly changed but it was passed on like a minor mod that no-one needed to worry about and the doc was not updated at the time. - 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/
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