From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262539AbVAESa2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:30:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262543AbVAESa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:30:27 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:65174 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262539AbVAESaR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:30:17 -0500 Message-ID: <41DC324F.5040009@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:30:39 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Willy Tarreau , Thomas Graf , "Theodore Ts'o" , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <41DB2BF3.2010103@tmr.com><41DB2BF3.2010103@tmr.com> <20050105000942.GA7961@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20050105000942.GA7961@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:51:15PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>I expect this to be ignored or disparaged like all other suggestions >>that anything resembling stability is needed. > > > No one is claiming stability is not needed. We are only debating the > best way to go about accomplishing it. You fooled me, most of what I hear from developers sounds like "it's working fine" to me. Linus made it this way, he wants it this way, and if Alan Cox saying it isn't working well doesn't convince him, nothing users say is going to matter. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me