Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932872Ab1EZQUr (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 12:20:47 -0400 Received: from relay2.ptmail.sapo.pt ([212.55.154.22]:34248 "HELO sapo.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932523Ab1EZQUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 12:20:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:20:45 EDT X-AntiVirus: PTMail-AV 0.4-0.97.0 X-Scan-Status: AV clean (0.02786 seconds); AS clean (0.11200 seconds); X-Antivirus-bastov-Mail-From: sergio@serjux.com via sergiomb.no-ip.org X-Antivirus-bastov: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(194.65.5.235):SA:0(0.3/5.0):. Processed in 1.202614 secs Process 6362) Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Basto To: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" Cc: Alan Cox , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , "Ted Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , DRI , Jan Engelhardt , Jacek Luczak , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-fsdevel , Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:13:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> <20110524154348.27ba649d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.1 (3.0.1-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <1306426437.6981.14.camel@segulix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 40 On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:07 -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox > wrote: > > Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a > big > > version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all > in > > git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some > crawly > > horror back from the dead. > > 2.8 could mark the beginning of the great cleanup > --- work out the details of what needs to be cleaned and set a goal > --- remove old buses/driver, switch to device tree, graphics, 32/64 > merges, etc > 3.0 would mark its completion Here it go my opinion, Many people ask for beginning of 2.7 kernel series which will end on 2.8, by old numeration. Kernel 2.8 will mainly a major clean up, of support of the very old hardware, like "math co-processor" at only exist in 386 and before Pentium. If some one want put Linux on this very old hardware should use kernel 2.2. However a new numeration of kernel is independent of this, and I agree with new numeration of kernel on drop a number. Last but not least, I would like to see marked a hiper stable kernel , which will be used by Debian guys. Debian guys tend to stop in a kernel which is not the best one, so let we choose for them what is the stable of stables . Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. -- 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/