Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 10:53:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.70 |
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On 27 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > Architectures are also normally just a sync up job and its again easier > to do once the core has stoppee changing.
Indeed. I think its more the rule than the exception that non-x86 architectures "get with the program" sometime during the stable release rather than before. There's just not a lot of incentive for the odd-ball architectures to care before the fact.
Would I prefer to have everything fixed by 2.6.0 (or even the pre-2.6 kernels)? Sure, everybody would. But it's just a fact of life that we won't see people who care about the issues before that happens.
In fact, judging by past performance, a lot of things won't get fixed before the actual vendors have made _releases_ that use 2.6.x (and the first ones inevitably will have 2.4.x as a fall-back: that's only prudent and sane).
This is not just a core kernel issue - we've seen this with subsystems like ext3 and ReiserFS: they were "finished' and "stable", but what made them _really_ stable was a release or two on vendor kernels, and thousands of users.
Linus
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