Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:46:37 +0100 | From | Stephen Tweedie <> | Subject | Re: three kernel trees? |
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Hi,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:57:52PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Were Linux to go totally modular in 2.5, development cycles will be > reduced by 1/2 to 1/3. This is because you could always roll back to > known good modules to post a release.
Most of the big 2.4 module changes involved totally rethinking the interactions between the modules. If you're changing the APIs between modules, rolling one back is hard.
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