Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:51:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:36:09 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:2053 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:35:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5 To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:44:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig), kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens), kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@transmeta.com In-Reply-To: <20011204120305.A16578@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Dec 04, 2001 12:03:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] 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 > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so > will simplify his maintainance task no end. That's why I'm tracking > both sides of the fork in the rulebase, so it will be an easy drop-in > replacement for Marcelo as well as Linus. Thats somewhat impractical. You will break all the existing additional configuration tools for the 2.4 stable tree that people expect to continue to work Breaking them in 2.5 isnt a big issue, but breaking stable kernel trees is a complete nono - 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/