Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:11:33 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] IDE fixes |
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> > This isn't about technical merits - it is about *risk*. You don't submit > > fs/partitions/check.c change doesn't influence anything other that behavior > of ide-gd driver and has been ACK-ed by Al Viro.
What part of "risk" don't you understand ? Any change to core code paths is a risk, submitting it just before 2.6.30 is plain stupid.
> > patches to core code to add new features just before the final release. > > This is not a feature but really a bug fix (requested by you along other > people in the past).
Its not an urgent this release doom-disaster fix - its a run of the mill feature improvement that fixes up a long term issue and wants testing in quantity before merging and nicely integrating so other storage people are happy with it.
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