On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:17:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> And finally a small plea for more testing. Do you even test before
> blindly sending patches off to Linus?! Sometimes just watching how
> quickly these big patches appears makes it impossible that they have
> gotten any kind of testing other than the 'hey it compiles', which I
> think it just way too little for something that could possible screw
> peoples data up very badly. Frankly, _I'm_ too scared to run 2.5 IDE
> currently. The success ratio of posted over working patches is too big.
Add my voice to these concerns. At the very least the code should have
been moved into a second tree to allow people to work with the old stable
driver as needed.
-ben
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