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Reverting disk aliases?Reverting disk aliases?Posted Nov 17, 2011 10:56 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)Parent article: Reverting disk aliases?
"Furthermore, Kroah-Hartman pointed out that Nishijima recognizes that it can be solved in user space..."
This can't be the argument to end all others though, or Andrew Tannenbaum would have won his famous debate with Linus Torvalds.
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Reverting disk aliases? Posted Nov 17, 2011 12:28 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
It is not. In fact, most subsystem maintainers pay very little attention to such arguments when the kernel change being proposed is not a hack, is reasonably contained, and has no long-term consequences worth of notice.
However, a new ABI that lots of people disagree with _is_ a long-term consequence worth of notice, and getting it in with so many outstanding NACKs doesn't make it any more palatable.
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