Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: Huge patches such as ISDN | Date | Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:35:01 -0400 |
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Where are these ISDN patches? I cannot seam to find their web site. Does anybody know if anybody is writing any drivers for the USR Sportster 128?
----- Original Message ----- From: M Carling <m@idiom.com> To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 7:15 AM Subject: Huge patches such as ISDN
> > 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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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