Re: o_sync in vfat driver

> Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he should  
> have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use  
> sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel.

or in HAL. really.


there was a very long discussion abuot kernel stability.
The problem is that once depending on the absence of a feature becomes
ABI ... there is a big problem.


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