Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:41:04 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.17 |
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On 20011222 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 06:56:44 -0500 >"Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com> wrote: > >> My thanks to for Marcelo's efforts...but.... >> >> Is there any way we can get Marcelo, Rik, and Andrea to work together on the >> "stable" version now (a Linux tribunal)? > >Would you mind to give us a short hint on the implicit "instability" you are >exactly talking about? I think 2.4.17 is in various ways well worked out and >maintained. There are further improvements possible for sure, but that is a >normal thing. Anyway I cannot really see any major instability issues that >require instant brainstorming. I am confident in Marcelo's maintenance. >
They are not different branches. Perhaps what is confusing him (and sometimes also confuses me), is that there are patches in aa kernel (I am not a compulsive patcher...) that look like basic bug fixes or simple but effective enhancements that never reach mainline, they are only in aa for ages (looking at andrea's dir in ftp.kernel.org: all the _vm patches, the spinlock-cacheline, compiler.h, rwsem, parent-timeslice, etc.). Nothing wrt numa, tux, uml or lvm.
How about a 18-pre1 taking from aa all that is usefull and not really intrusive ?
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.17-beo #1 SMP Fri Dec 21 21:39:36 CET 2001 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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