Stefan Fleiter wrote:
>
> Hi Chris!
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 Chris Mason wrote:
>
> > Bug fixes need testing, regardless of how correct they look.
>
> You are right, yes.
> But I think there often are patches sent to the Mailinglist you don't hear
> about for a long time and at least seem to have been lost. Dirk is one of
> those who asks for them from time to time.
Stefan is right on this.
>
> IMHO there should be a weekly 'Status Posting' telling which patches there
> are, which patches you should apply for what purpose and which kernel and
> finally what kernel you should use.
>
> That would really cut down on list traffic and thereby save time of people
> who are more needed for programming and debugging than answering the same
> questions all over the time.
>
> > This got sent to linus and alan today:
> >
> > diff -Nru a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
> > --- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c Thu Jul 12 13:18:03 2001
> > +++ b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c Thu Jul 12 13:18:03 2001
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
