Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:20:55 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2 |
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James Bottomley wrote: > I'm arguing that a too strict an interpretation of bugfix only post -rc1 > will damage feature stabilisation. Please think carefully about this. > If we go out in a released kernel with a problematic user space ABI, we > end up being committed to it forever.
IMO you're going off on your own tangent. Linus never singled out bsg (far from it, in fact, since bsg was not a major LOC contributor) or declared ABI-related fixes verboten.
I don't think anyone wants to release a userspace ABI with problems, since we all know that's basically locked in stone once its in a mainline release.
AFAICS his main complaint was he felt your push was a big honking huge change, late in the game, that included obvious non-fixes. And it was. lpfc was probably the biggest part of that, not bsg, and it's pretty clear such a big lpfc update should have gone in when the merge window was open. The [non-lpfc] cleanups were also not -rc2 material.
Jeff
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