[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:57:50PM -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04:11AM -0400, Chuck Youse wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OTOH, I just applied it to a 2.6.27.2 tree, but the compiler had a litter of
>>>>> kittens & failed rather verbosely.  And I know very little of the syntax
>>>>> restrictions it has now.  Lots of them were pointer miss-matches.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I love how a minor minor rev change in Linux means API breakage.
>>>
>>> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
>>>
>>> If you want a stable API, get your code merged in the kernel or
>>> implement it in userland instead -- hence my FUSE suggestion. :-)
>>
>> Yow.  Not my intention to trigger a flame-war over Linux kernel stability
>> (or lack thereof).  I have long since given up on building my own, and
>> simply am using what Ubuntu 8.04 LTS shipped with.  The module works fine
>> there and meets my needs.
>
> I would have thought you could reserve the words "flame war" for
> Chuck's post rather than mine...I didn't name the file...

The words are relative to the situation and not anyone's post in specific.


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