Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 04:15:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | M Carling <> | Subject | Huge patches such as ISDN |
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I've been thinking about the huge ISDN patch for a few weeks now.
I agree completely with Linus that huge patches should not be accepted at feature freeze time. As Linus has pointed out, they cannot be properly reviewed in the short time before the kernel is declared "stable". On the other hand, the work that the ISDN developers have done should make it into the tree. Asking them to submit small patches has been futile in the past and I don't see any reason to believe this will change.
I believe the best time to roll in the huge ISDN patch would be 2.5.1. This allows the most time for peer review before it makes it into a "stable" kernel. Users who need it sooner can continue to apply the patch themselves, as they do now.
Adding a huge patch now to 2.3 risks delaying 2.4. It also jeopardizes the stability of 2.4. Either of these suffice, IMO, to justify postponing a huge patch updating feature that is used by relatively few people (most of whom probably compile their own kernels) until 2.5.1.
M Carling
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