From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268047AbTGRHwQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:52:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268160AbTGRHwQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:52:16 -0400 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:31920 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268047AbTGRHwP (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:52:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:06:27 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Andrew Morton , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030718080626.GH19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andries Brouwer , Andrew Morton , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717122600.A2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org> <20030718002451.A2569@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717224307.GF19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030718011115.A2600@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030718000444.GG19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030718030558.B2612@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030718030558.B2612@pclin040.win.tue.nl> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:05:58AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > There is no flag day. The kernel must be updated, glibc must be > updated, user space software must be updated. A long process > that will take years. Indeed, so far we have not succeeded in > updating the kernel, and eight years went by. Yes, software must be updated. Why on earth would you update it twice when once will do? > Filesystems? Last I looked reiserfs handled 32 bits. And you treat it as having 16bits until reiser4 or reiser5 handles 64bits. Joel -- "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127