Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:18:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > Why not just shut the door on new features after 6 months? Even if > > they are things you personally would really like to see (like the I/O > > and networking scaling changes), if they're not ready in time, they > > have to wait for the next cycle. > > I wish I could do that. > > I'm a push-over and a wimp. And I love new features as much as the next > guy.
Why don't you take a few item from the 2.5 todo list and start 2.5 already 'feature-freezed'? Being the list of changes short and *known in advance*, it should be easy to port later 2.4.x stability fixes to the new 2.5. So 2.6 release can be quite close in time. Short todo list:
- BKL changes + drivers update&test; - long-term VM changes (the kind of stuff you don't think to include in 2.4); - ReiserFS integration: to cut l-k traffic by half B-) - you know better that me what else...
Do you think the above can be done in, say, 6 months after 2.4.0?
> > Linus >
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