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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:04:43 +0200
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>
Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE?
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> Are there not several uses of 2.0.x that are not compatible with
> 2.2/2.4?  And if 2.0 is working, then why are you worried about
> being able to use 3.2?  Why do we need to maintain compatibility
> with OLD (not 'low-end' but OLD) hardware if there's an existing
> kernel that meets that hardware's needs already?

Because new userspace won't roll with old kernels (reliably|at all).

T.
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