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   Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:29:20 JST Wolf480pl

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   • Simon Michalke

   @quad @simon_m
   yeah, basically there's a rule:

   only bugfixes after -rc1
   features wait for merge window

   and Kent notoriously submits features after -rc2 or even later in the release cycle

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:29:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Simon Michalke
     @wolf480pl @simon_m @quad And "don't break userspace" is APIs, not filesystems I'm as pretty sure some have been removed.
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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:29:18 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Simon Michalke

     @simon_m @quad
     it has been

     but also

     Linus has threatened to remove bcachefs from mainline on at least 2 occasions

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     Simon Michalke (simon_m@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:29:19 JST Simon Michalke

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     @wolf480pl @quad

     has bcachefs been added to mainline already?

     afaik the most sacred rule to Linus is to never break userspace. So I doubt that the feature will be removed entirely.

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:50:22 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     • Simon Michalke

     @simon_m @wolf480pl @quad it never dropped the experimental label so no one was supposed to be using it for production anyway.

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