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Ooh you have a vm patch that helps swap on the desktop! I can help you here with my experience from swap prefetch.

1. Get it reviewed and have noone show any evidence it harms
2. Find hundreds of users who can testify it helps
3. Find a way of quantifying it.
4. ...
5. Merge into mainline.

There, that should get you as far as 4. I haven't figured out what 4 is yet. I believe it may be goto 1;

-- Con Kolivas (thanks to Jos Poortvliet).

-mm is crap at present. Well. Mainline is crap at present, and -mm is crap^2. I think I might be about to throw vast amounts of code overboard.
-- Andrew Morton

I'm really fed up with having to pull big changes after the merge window, because it just doesn't seem to let up. I'm going to go postal on the next maintainer who doesn't understand what "merge window" and "fixes only" means.
-- Linus Torvalds
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VLAn changes in -rc3

Posted Mar 8, 2007 5:36 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Indeed, VLAN changes in 2.6.21-rc3 broke MadWifi. It was clearly not a bugfix but an optimization (using a two-dimensional array instead of a one-dimensional array) that should not have gone into the mainline outside the merge window, let alone after the second release candidate. If anything else breaks MadWifi before 2.6.21 release, expect me to go postal too :)

VLAn changes in -rc3

Posted Mar 8, 2007 11:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It looks like people need to be reminded that git supports branches ;} ;}

Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 13, 2007 17:51 UTC (Tue) by aigarius (subscriber, #7329) [Link]

Love this part :D

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