Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > With respect, Rik. You haven't finished the 2.4 VM yet. > > It needs better design description. > Could you please take the time to raise a commentary patch > which describes the underlying design intent? OK, I'll go work on this... You are right, t

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm getting a notable increase in people sending me patches that > > do major things and should be 2.5 stuff. Please if you want to > > rewrite the VM completely, redesign the scsi layer and the like > > wait until 2.5. > > VM fo

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:22:58PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > probably even out of linux-kernel ... > > > > No. I want to see experimental stuff on l-k. That's what it's meant for. > > Putting the experimental stuff which isn

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:22:58PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > I agree with Alan that we should keep all experimental stuff > > out of 2.4, > > Depends on the impact. Experimental stuff in MM, FS, ... [snip] > But, that's probably what you meant

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:22:58PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > I agree with Alan that we should keep all experimental stuff > out of 2.4, Depends on the impact. Experimental stuff in MM, FS, ... things is something which we don't want. If somebody writes a new driver for a device which was not s

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2001-03-06T16:56:32, >Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I'm getting a notable increase in people sending me patches that do major > > things and should be 2.5 stuff. Please if you want to rewrite the VM completely, > > redesign the scsi

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > I'm getting a notable increase in people sending me patches that > do major things and should be 2.5 stuff. Please if you want to > rewrite the VM completely, redesign the scsi layer and the like > wait until 2.5. VM folks can post their patches to [EMAIL PR

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-03-06T16:56:32, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm getting a notable increase in people sending me patches that do major > things and should be 2.5 stuff. Please if you want to rewrite the VM completely, > redesign the scsi layer and the like wait until 2.5. When will 2.5 be fo