On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:21:12AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:38:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > tags 272029 +upstream > > thanks > > > > Please get feature-patches merged upstream before bugging us, thanks. > > Upstream rejected them untill they're "a lot more commonly used", which can > also be read as "supported in major distributions like Debian". Considering > your opinion then the patches should go to /dev/null? > > Where are we going? FATX support is non-disruptive (Separate module from > vfat. It won't even be loaded at all unless the user wants it). What are > the problems with it? If your concern is with the release process, I can > understand, and don't mind leaving this as post-sarge.
I would suggest making a kernel-patch package. That seems to be the correct vehicle for new features to me. -- Horms
