Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:26:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.75 |
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Russell King wrote: > > Well, only two words from me. Oh Shit.
Hey, this is already much later than it should have been, so it's not as if this is a huge surprise.
> The 2.5.70 ARM patch currently looks like this:
We can sort it out later. Obviously, clearly arm-specific patches (ie stuff in arch/arm and include/asm-arm) I wouldn't mind per se, but I'd rather hold back on even those just to make the patches and the changlogs not be mixed up with the "main bugfixes".
We've never had a first stable release that has all architectures up-to-date, and I'm not planning on changing that for 2.6.x. This is _not_ the time to try to make my tree build on arm (or other architectures either), considering that my tree hasn't been the main ARM tree for a long time.
> Frustrated such an understatement.
To be blunt, which part of "we want to release 2.6.x this year" came as a surprise to you? I
That means that I'm not willing to hold stuff up any more. Stuff that hasn't followed the development tree doesn't magically just "get fixed".
Also, the only real point of a stable release is for distribution makers. That pretty much cuts the list of "needs to be supported" down to x86, ia64, x86-64 and possibly sparc/alpha.
So everything else is a bonus, but can equally well just play catch-up later. Embedded people tend to want to stay back anyway, which is obviously why they don't follow the development tree in the first place.
Linus
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