Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263789AbTETPCB (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:02:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263809AbTETPCB (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:02:01 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:30388 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263789AbTETPCA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:02:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16074.18029.571091.558335@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:14:53 +0200 From: mikpe@csd.uu.se To: Kai Germaschewski Cc: Brian Gerst , Sam Ravnborg , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update fs Makefiles In-Reply-To: References: <3EC952E9.9080201@quark.didntduck.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 15 Kai Germaschewski writes: > o Possibly add "-y" support to 2.4 (it's a pretty trivial change) That's the worst thing you could do for those of us maintaining 2.4/2.5 compatibility in drivers etc. Having to check "oh I'm in 2.4, let's see if I'm in 2.4.23 or $VENDOR 2.4.blah because then these random 2.5-like changes occurred" sucks like h*ll. It's much better to have 2.4.$x be like 2.4.$y than 2.5.$z. - 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/