Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev | Date | Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:32:56 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> said: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:12:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5 > > > stream. Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff? > > > > Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the > > lateness of it? I didn't think it was going to happen. > > This is essential. There are installations using >1000 disks > today (on other OSes, generally). It can't wait another 2.5 years.
This kind of changes in the middle of feature freeze are exactly what gets you to 2.5 years. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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