Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263252AbUDPO7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263246AbUDPO7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:59:47 -0400 Received: from mail.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:14302 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263252AbUDPO67 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:58:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:23:11 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Andre Hedrick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 Message-ID: <20040416142311.GD2253@logos.cnet> References: <20040416135102.GB1485@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040416135102.GB1485@logos.cnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Cyclades-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Cyclades-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 34 On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:51:02AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Marcelo, > > You are suggesting that 2.6 is not stable ? How could that be ? It is stable, but some people still use 2.4 for production machines, and will still do for sometime. > Should it not be backported to 2.2 and why not 2.0 ? The amount of people using 2.2/2.0 and SATA is probably small. But sure, why dont you start the backport ? > What about the rest of the feature sets ? This is not like "the rest of the feature sets", this is basic functionality needed to support new systems in the market. And again, unfortunately not everyone is running v2.6 on their production environment, yet. > Necessary? But their is the new and improved called 2.6. > It is time for the old and lousy to quietly wimper off and die. Right, the old and lousy should wimper off and die. But this is a special case (a lot of people are applying SATA by hand, look at lkml). - 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/