[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

[John W. Linville]

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...

John
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