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Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 09:19:11 UTC 2005
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:13:53AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:15:23AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > > - Rewrite of the inotify back-end, reduce resources usage, tuning in
> > >
> > > Does this mean that inotify is now in the kernel?
> >
> > I don't think so, davej is the ultimate person to answer when this will
> > hit us, but I expect it will be in Fedora Core 5, so ...
>
> It will definitly appear in FC5. I'll likely backport 2.6.13 to FC4
> a little while after it gets released, and *maybe* to FC3 too.
Hum, I didn't expect to push more gamin updates to FC3, for FC3 my
main goal was to fix the last perceived desktop bugs related to
dnotify/gamin.
> Over time, I want to spend *less* time having to worry about the n-2 release,
> doing only updates for really critical bugs. Rebasing the n-1 release
my perspective too :-)
> creates more than enough work as it is. We seem to gain almost as many
> (if not more) new bugs as we close older bugs by rebasing, so it's not
> a magic bullet.
>
> Cherry picking from ~4000 csets per release to backport to FC3 isn't
> going to be fun either, so it's likely I'll just backport the latest
> 2.6.x.y release back to the older kernels.
thanks,
Daniel
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