Re: Linux 2.6.0

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:44:17 EST


On Thu, Dec 18 2003, Hans Reiser wrote:
> bill davidsen wrote:
>
> >In article <006201c3c54c$2bb00c50$0e25fe0a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >Maciej Soltysiak <solt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >| > Wondering if ALSA and Latest Usb updates from Greg KH will make it into
> >| > 2.6.1 ?
> >| Is anything known about reiserfs4 becoming stable enough to be included
> >some
> >| time soon. Maybe around 2.6.3-5
> >
> >I think that's vastly optimistic. As Hans has reported, it's still
> >pretty alpha as yet. And you can thank him for not releasing it until
> >he's happy with it!
> >
> >
> I don't think it is vastly optimistic, I hope we can send something in
> next month, but you probably know how hard it is to estimate the time to
> the last findable bug for a large project like ours.

Not to mention the months long period of actually getting user testing
and fixing all of those bugs before it's qualifiable for kernel
inclusion.

I hope you don't expect to actually have something that's worthy of
being merged into 2.6.x in a months time?

--
Jens Axboe

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