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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
	thornber@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:49:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210124925.6b793489.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0312100005270.30298@fogarty.jakma.org>

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:15:17 +0000 (GMT)
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> > Just apply the patch if you're for some reason terrified of 2.6.
> 
> Or get RedHat or Fedora to apply the patch.

There it is again, this /dev/null argument.

"Multi-billion dollar companies" have gone bancrupt on the simple fact that
diversification of one product can rattle customers/users to a degree that they
in fact decide against the whole product range.

IOW go on with the idea to spread around an unknown number of kernel versions
and you can be sure that linux as a whole will greatly suffer.

This is a "user" issue, not a "developer" issue of course. Developers can apply
any kind of patches they like, but don't go and tell the vast user base to
"just apply patch xyz". They won't honor this at all, your level of acceptance
will dramatically drop.

Regards,
Stephan



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-09 11:58 Device-mapper submission for 2.4 Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:24 ` [Patch 1/4] fs.h: b_journal_head Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 23:46   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-10  8:46     ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-10 12:06       ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-09 12:25 ` [Patch 2/4] dm: mempool backport Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:26 ` [Patch 3/4] dm: core files Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:26 ` [Patch 4/4] dm: ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 13:15 ` Device-mapper submission for 2.4 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 13:45   ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 14:00     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-09 14:10       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-09 14:21         ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-09 14:16       ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 14:24       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-09 14:10     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 14:34       ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 21:07         ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-09 22:26           ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 22:48             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 23:46               ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-09 23:58                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10  0:15                   ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 11:49                     ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2003-12-10 23:15                     ` Dave Jones
2003-12-10  0:27                 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-12-10  0:59                   ` Tupshin Harper
2003-12-10  9:40                     ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-12-10  2:44                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-10 15:55                   ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 16:54                     ` venom
2003-12-10 17:00                       ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 17:14                         ` venom
2003-12-10 23:40                         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-11 19:48                           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-16 19:15                     ` bill davidsen
2003-12-16 19:01                 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-10  8:45             ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-10 17:30               ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 17:44                 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-10 17:48                   ` venom
2003-12-10 18:07                   ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 19:30                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-09 17:02       ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-12-09 22:53         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2003-12-10  3:38         ` Lincoln Dale
2003-12-10  6:12           ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-10  6:35             ` viro
2003-12-09 17:45       ` Kevin Corry
2003-12-09 19:47         ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2003-12-09 14:23     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-09 14:36       ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 19:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 21:13   ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10  0:49 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

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