Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:04:03 +0000 |
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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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