[CVALE] Linux Kernel Developer Quit

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Thu Jul 26 12:48:21 PDT 2007


On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:52:12 -0700, Pandora <cvale2 at synx.us.to> wrote:

> Also kernel patches really annoy me. Reiserfs should have been a 
> standalone module, but instead it requires you run a patch that modifies 
> your kernel sources any way it wants. That's not good modular design in 
> my opinion. Plus it's damned hard to upgrade, since the strong coupling 
> means when kernel developers change a file that has little to do with 
> reiserfs, it breaks the patch which modifies that file. 
> Documentation/Changes, anyone?

It's already there: Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

-- Pete



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