Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:50:51 +1200 (NZST) | From | Colin Coghill <> | Subject | Re: NE2000 PCI clones patches: Vote! |
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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Jacques Gelinas wrote: > If the ne2000-PCI can probe and it does not, this is linux which looks > unsophisticated. This is bad.
This is nowhere near as bad as a kernel that never quite reaches stability because we keep adding last minute "features".
> With the kind of reaction we have had on this one, I suspect that there > will never be any new hardware support in 2.0 and users will have to wait > for 2.2 to get it. It goes against the idea that 2.0 should have "some > life" even when 2.1 is available.
Never underestimate just how important a "stable" kernel is to some people, and just how much an even apparently innocuous "last minute addition" can destabilise it.
I'm not saying that this particular patch is a bad one, only that the line has to be drawn *somewhere*, and at 2.0.20 already and still not quite right, I think the world is wanting a kernel they can rely on rather than one which has every last feature possible. I know I'd love to be able to upgrade the machines at work from 1.2.13 soon... (Of course my home machine is 2.0.20 :-))
Still, one thing I've learned to trust over the last few years is...
It's Linus's call...
- Colin -- email colin@kcbbs.gen.nz | "Don't worry. colin@utf.gen.nz | I always leave things until the last minute." | - Doctor, GHOST LIGHT | Campaigning for 4 line sigs |
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