Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.2 missing features | Date | Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:44:15 +0100 (BST) |
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> But the work has to be done anyways. If the people are not interested in > making their work usable for 2.<next stable release> that shows that they're > not interested in long-term maintainability of the feature, which raises > the question if the feature should be added at all.
Completely untrue. The are not willing to fight the slow and tedious 2.1.x submission system, nor do they have the time or resources to work on 2.1.x until its stable. It isnt a case of interest its a case of practical issues.
As 2.1.12x has become solid the people who've been doing all the amateur radio work have been eagerly porting their improvements because they can now realistically work on it. Except for NetROM Linus has all of those in his tree, and Im sure NetROM will be in his tree soon.
Similarly commercial vendors are porting to the distributor shipped Linux kernel. The point of a company writing a driver is to sell cards. Until 2.1.x is close to final you can't expect them to worry about 2.1.x. Again there are lots of them now worrying about 2.1.x because its close to 2.2. In additional there are a few who discovered the userbase had done it for them anyway ;)
Alan
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