Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:39:52 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Being standards compliant is not an argument it's a design goal, a 
> > requirement. Standards compliance is like pregant, you are or you're 
> 
> Linux history says different.  There was always the "final 1%" of 
> compliance that required silliness we really did not want to bother with.

This isn't about the 1% however. Its about API and ABI. Changing the
default is a fairly evil ABI change. Telling everyone relatime is cool on
desktops and defaulting it in the distro is not an ABI change and is very
sensible
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