Re: Patches in 2.4.17-pre2 that aren't in 2.5.1-pre8

[Alan Cox]

> patches that go into the stable kernel should also go into the development
> kernel. I was wondering how good this works and I was surprised that only

In many cases that isnt true, and for a lot of the pending patches its
pointless merging them into 2.5 until 2.5 gets into better shape. Going back
over them as you have done is something that does need doing, but not until
the block layer has some semblance of completion about it