Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 12:46:19 EDT

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> I hope you understand why I think that adding reiserfs is a small disturbance
> compared to continuing revisions of VFS.

This kind of lock shifting is a major upheaval. It invalidates any device
driver testing done in the past weeks when we have been slowly moving towards
more stability.

Im just hoping Linus refuses the changes

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