Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:27:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:27:17 -0400 Received: from THANK.THUNK.ORG ([216.175.175.163]:7552 "EHLO thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:27:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:45:34 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Russell King Cc: Rob Landley , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [OKS] Kernel release management Message-ID: <20020706124534.GA476@think.thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Russell King , Rob Landley , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Linux-Kernel Mailing List References: <200207030718.g637I0L145202@pimout2-int.prodigy.net> <20020704131654.B11601@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020704131654.B11601@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 21 On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:16:54PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:19:41PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > Look at the pressure to get stuff into 2.4 when it's already in 2.5. Because > > 2.4 is what people are actually using, and 2.5 is really just for os > > development and testing (and general playing with) at this point. > > If stuff in 2.5 wasn't soo broken (looking at IDE here) then more people > would be using it, and less people would be wanting the 2.5 features back > ported to 2.4. IMHO, at the moment 2.5 has a major problem. It is not > getting the testing it deserves because things like IDE and such like > aren't reasonably stable enough. And the obvious answer to this is a backport of the 2.4 IDE subsystem to 2.5..... CONFIG_IDE_WONT_FIND_NEW_E2FSCK_BUGS, anyone? :-) - Ted - 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/