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SubjectRe: three kernel trees?
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.

--Stephen
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