Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 05 Dec 1996 20:11:18 +1100 | From | Lawrence Chim <> | Subject | Re: PNP patch into kernel when? |
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William Burrow wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > IMHO, any symbol that gets exported to modules should be viewed as > > 'external', and not changed without a very good reason. This applies > > especially to global things like kmalloc and the request_*() functions. > > It is getting late in the Linux development cycle to change its > interfaces. Unfortunately, Linux is still being developed and will > perhaps continue to develop over time. > > Perhaps it should be considered splitting off a 2.2 kernel that > conforms to the old standard, and a parallel 3.0 version with the > resource management and other interface breaking code in it. Later > development will occur on 3.0 as 3.1. This provides a kernel (2.2) that > anyone can use and prepares everyone for 3.2. >
Good ideas, what about you linus? :-)
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