On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 PST, Arjan van de Ven said: > > A bugfix? > > yes it was a really painful bugfix, but still.
I'm not saying that it wasn't needed, it *was* a busticated API. > I'll repeat the question. What would waiting for an -mm release have bought > for this bugfix? > Answer: nothing more than what was done on Linus git. Just wondering what happened to the "large changes should percolate in -mm for a bit beforehand" concept. We've seen a lot of patchsets that totalled up to a *lot* less intrusiveness get pushed off with "This needs to cook in -mm for a while".
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