Subject: Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware
To:	hans@reiser.to (Hans Reiser)
Date:	Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:46:19 +0100 (BST)
From:	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> I hope you understand why I think that adding reiserfs is a small disturbance
> compared to continuing revisions of VFS.

This kind of lock shifting is a major upheaval. It invalidates any device
driver testing done in the past weeks when we have been slowly moving towards
more stability.

Im just hoping Linus refuses the changes


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