Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 17:01:36 +0100 | From | Ionut Georgescu <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > 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. > Just suck it up, plug on with the complex command of cat xfs.patch | > patch -p1 or move up to 2.6. Anyone using xfs can obviously do either > already and everyone not can continue not being affected by new code if > they dont want to. >
I can understand that, but I don't take 2.6 for an answer. 2.4 is not yet dead and it won't be for a long time, just as 2.2 has gotten to 2.2.25, although 2.4.0 was out when, 3 years ago ?
Ionut
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