Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:54:22 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 |
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On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote: > > Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels > for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, > so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost > all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???
In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it, reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems.
Jörn
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