Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262338AbTINIoY (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262339AbTINIoY (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:44:24 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:17536 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262338AbTINIoX (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:44:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:55:00 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200309140855.h8E8t0qc000371@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: bunk@fs.tum.de, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection Cc: davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 16 > > Nothing will change, except that if you want to support all CPUs, you > > have to select all CPUs instead of 386. > > This is incorrect. You don't want to change the behavior that people > are relying on. Does it matter over a major version change? Surely as long as the help text is sufficiently updated it's OK? Loads of other things have subtly changed... John. - 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/