Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:12:19 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
| |
Em Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Ed Sweetman escreveu: > Ionut Georgescu wrote: > >Because new hardware requires newest kernel, and neither I, nor the > >majority of the users out there have the knowledge to 'forward' apply > >patches. > > > >Even if 2.4 is phasing out, the process has just begun and it will last > >a lot until 2.6 will be ready for production systems. > > > >We are not talking about a fancy, experimental feature. We are talking > >about a mature, serious project, that has been traveling for 3 years > >along the 2.4 kernel and with even more years of testing and research > >behind. I find it just pitty for the linux kernel not to include it. > > > >When going to a conference, you don't present the brand new stuff you > >have just computed or measured the night before, because you just can't > >know if it is correct or not. Instead, you will present older, but > >mature work, that you can swear on. The same with the 2.6 kernel. > >Everybody is pushing it in front, but no one is using it for production > >systems. XFS and 2.4 are, even together, old, mature work, that anybody > >would 'present' anywhere. > > > >Regards, > >Ionut > > > The point was, the patch is perfectly and easily usable the way it is. > There stands to be no reason to make it part of the vanilla kernel other > than a very slight convenience factor for a small minority of users. > Tosatti thinks that that versus changes to this stable kernel that touch > common code are unacceptable. Despite the maturity of the project, it > just doesn't make sense to include it in the vanilla kernel, it would be > a disservice to the rest of the users of 2.4.x kernels that do so for > stability, not only in the not crashing sense, but also in the code-base > sense. And the number of users who don't use xfs so greatly outnumber > the users that do that it's a mute point for Tosatti.
<humour> Thanks for reading my mind and writing it down 8) </humour>
- Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |