Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750803AbVKAOQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:16:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750806AbVKAOQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:16:00 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:51474 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750803AbVKAOP7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:15:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:15:54 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Roman Zippel , ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <20051101141554.GQ8009@stusta.de> References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051031001647.GK2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030172247.743d77fa.akpm@osdl.org> <200510310341.02897.ak@suse.de> <20051031160557.7540cd6a.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 41 On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:13:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent? > > They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate > something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these > days. Which is problematic. >... There's also the question how to define feature-equivalent. I want my computer to power off after "halt". There's a significant difference between how much kernel code was required for this feature for my old computer and what is required for my new computer (in kernel 2.6.14): text data bss dec hex filename 12721 2124 104 14949 3a65 arch/i386/kernel/apm.o 136789 5724 4788 147301 23f65 drivers/acpi/built-in.o > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/