On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:59:49 -0800 (PST),
Matt Robinson <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Cool. It'd be nice to utilize the same thing for 2.2.X...
Which brings up a question. Why bother with lkcd for 2.2. kernels?
IMHO, there is little or no chance that a change of this magnitude will
be accepted into the stable, production kernel tree. Especially when
the 2.3 freeze followed by the release of 2.4 is getting ever closer.
If you concentrate on 2.2, you will only have to redo all the work for
2.3, taking into account the 2.3 kernel changes. You might be better
off concentrating on 2.3.
I know that most distributions are using 2.2 kernels but that is
irrelevant for a patch like this. Users who just install from a
distribution and run it will not bother getting a new kernel and they
definitely will not apply a 26,000 line patch. The sort of user who
will apply a big patch, install new programs, change init scripts etc.
is almost certainly running 2.3 kernels already. Get the patch into
2.3 now so it appears on distributions when 2.4 comes out.
|