Re: Announce: LVM Patch against kernel 2.3.28

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:21:22 +0100 (CET)


On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Hans Reiser wrote:

> place in fs/buffer.c
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_REISERFS
> #include reiserfs/buffer.c
> #endif
>
> If the user doesn't turn reiserfs on, he will take no risk at all.
> I'll modify our reiserfs patch to do it that way, it should have been
> done.....

no, this just makes the kernel harder to maintain and is a generic PITA.
Either something is generic and we want to include it in the main kernel,
or something is local to an fs and as such it should stay there. We cant
have it both ways.

-- mingo

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