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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.4 future
    Em Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Ed Sweetman escreveu:
    > Ionut Georgescu wrote:
    > >Because new hardware requires newest kernel, and neither I, nor the
    > >majority of the users out there have the knowledge to 'forward' apply
    > >patches.
    > >
    > >Even if 2.4 is phasing out, the process has just begun and it will last
    > >a lot until 2.6 will be ready for production systems.
    > >
    > >We are not talking about a fancy, experimental feature. We are talking
    > >about a mature, serious project, that has been traveling for 3 years
    > >along the 2.4 kernel and with even more years of testing and research
    > >behind. I find it just pitty for the linux kernel not to include it.
    > >
    > >When going to a conference, you don't present the brand new stuff you
    > >have just computed or measured the night before, because you just can't
    > >know if it is correct or not. Instead, you will present older, but
    > >mature work, that you can swear on. The same with the 2.6 kernel.
    > >Everybody is pushing it in front, but no one is using it for production
    > >systems. XFS and 2.4 are, even together, old, mature work, that anybody
    > >would 'present' anywhere.
    > >
    > >Regards,
    > >Ionut
    >
    >
    > The point was, the patch is perfectly and easily usable the way it is.
    > There stands to be no reason to make it part of the vanilla kernel other
    > than a very slight convenience factor for a small minority of users.
    > Tosatti thinks that that versus changes to this stable kernel that touch
    > common code are unacceptable. Despite the maturity of the project, it
    > just doesn't make sense to include it in the vanilla kernel, it would be
    > a disservice to the rest of the users of 2.4.x kernels that do so for
    > stability, not only in the not crashing sense, but also in the code-base
    > sense. And the number of users who don't use xfs so greatly outnumber
    > the users that do that it's a mute point for Tosatti.

    <humour>
    Thanks for reading my mind and writing it down 8)
    </humour>

    - Arnaldo
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