Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:39:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:39:14 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:57870 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:39:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3AC97AF0.C5D6EDA7@evision-ventures.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:25:36 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Larger dev_t In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > So change them as well for a new distribution. What's there problem. > > There isn't anything out there you can't do by hand. > > Fortunately so! > > So users cannot go back and forward between new and old kernels. Very good. > Try explaining that to serious production -users- of a system and see how > it goes down If anything I'm a *SERIOUS* production user. And I wouldn't allow *ANYBODY* here to run am explicitly tagged as developement kernel here anyway in an production enviornment. That's what releases are for damn. Or do you think that Linux should still preserve DOS compatibility in to the eternity as other "popular" systems do? - 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/