Messages in this thread | | | From | Wayne.Brown@altec ... | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:38:19 -0600 | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5 |
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Amen! Those are *exactly* the reasons I play with kernel upgrades.
Wayne
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> on 12/04/2001 12:26:27 PM
To: trini@kernel.crashing.org (Tom Rini) cc: dalecki@evision.ag, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig), esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond), kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens), kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@transmeta.com (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
> > > Python2 - which means most users dont have it. > > Most users sure as hell shouldn't be playing with 2.5.x right now > anyways. With any sort of 'luck' it'll be 6 months at least before > 2.5.x becomes stable enough that it will probably compile all the time > again and not have a random fs eating bug. In 6 months even woody might > be frozen :)
It wont become stable if nobody can configure it because nobody will build it or run it. Lots of people build non stable kernels because its
a) fun b) a way to learn and play with the system c) they might make their own small fix and mark
not all of the them are demon kernel hackers.
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