Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:19:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:19:20 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:12037 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:19:08 -0400 Subject: Re: Larger dev_t To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:19:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin), Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <3AC97AF0.C5D6EDA7@evision-ventures.com> from "Martin Dalecki" at Apr 03, 2001 09:25:36 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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? You still break 2.4-2.6. Thats a production release jump. Right now I can and do run 2.0->2.4 on the same box. If you dont understand why to many people that is a requirement please talk to folks who run real business on Linux - 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/