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    SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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    On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 14:27, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
    > >> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I
    > >> want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously
    > >> annoy users and vendors.

    I downloaded the DRI drivers (test R300 code in CVS), qemu and Xen 8)

    > I can see no easy solution for this... If Linus decides to fork off
    > 2.7, development efforts will go into 2.7 and fixes should get
    > backported to 2.6. If Linus decides to stay with 2.6, new development
    > will have to be "conservative" enough not to break things that were
    > working.

    Its relatively easy to fix in kernel drivers for API changes during a
    release cycle and it helps enormously being able to do so.
    remap_page_range was rapidly fixed and very soon can vanish forever from
    the tree.

    Alan

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