Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759412Ab1FARrR (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:47:17 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:47481 "EHLO mail-yi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759043Ab1FARrQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:47:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=kepstin.ca; s=google; h=subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; b=Zf5/6A+vqv34ujfymrUHVYFO8S8ipIT+c3OzFKg0uORstLvSy+O6YLb5qcCSArWYSq Jgb4hSTeRK0zyU9CmWeFemFiZd1RJYWZFz2qditeGnXj/9cch9fIt4oZCp0uKISiF31U RfqrgLAlOYw31cQWqHnzNgOWtyT+TE+pGxq8g= Subject: Re: Linux 3.0 change listings - Wonderful World of Linux 3.0 From: Calvin Walton To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Joe Pranevich , Mike Frysinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:47:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110531201348.GA8723@1wt.eu> References: <20110531201348.GA8723@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1306950434.3627.23.camel@ayu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 30 On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 22:13 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0400, Joe Pranevich wrote: > > Mike, > > > > Thank you. I appreciate the comments and the corrections. It was a > > marathon weekend and yes, I missed some obvious typos. Thanks. > > > I'd say that in general, almost all of the features you're announcing as > "new" will make unaware people think that older versions did not have > those features, which is quite misleading. Linus took great care to say > that 3.0-rc1 had very few changes, it can be a bit confusing to see a > post pretending it to be a revolutionary new kernel. > > Probably that you should more clearly say that all those features were > progressively added in all 2.6 releases, otherwise I'm already expecting > to see a lot of idiocies posted in journals. Perhaps a simple change of the title and introduction would handle clearing this up. Instead of presenting it as a "What's new in Linux 3.0" article (which it is not, or it would be a lot shorter!), why not call it what it actually is: "A Retrospective of the Linux 2.6 era"? -- Calvin Walton -- 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/