Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:16:10 +0100 (BST) |
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> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > > > I think we should stick to incrementing the major number when binary > > compatibility is broken. > > "Stick to"? We've never had that as any criteria for major numbers in the > kernel. Binary compatibility has _never_ been broken as a release policy, > only as a "that code is old, and we've given people 5 years to migrate to > the new system calls, the old ones are TOAST".
Ah, I was getting confused, I thought that the move to 2.0 was when we moved from a.out to elf. I didn't really follow kernel development very closely at all back then, to be truthful.
> The only policy for major numbers has always been "major capability > changes".
Then it definitely shouldn't be 3.0 yet then.
> 1.0 was "networking is stable and generally usable" (by the > standards of that time), while 2.0 was "SMP and true multi-architecture > support". My planned point for 3.0 was NuMA support, but while we actually > have some of that, the hardware just isn't relevant enough to matter.
Hmmm, then for 3.0 I'd vote for fully working and proven stable:
* High memory support, * IPV6 * IDE-SCSI * Bluetooth * USB (2) * IEEE 1394
> The memory management issues would qualify for 3.0, but my argument there > is really that I doubt everybody really is happy yet. Which was why I > asked for people to test it and complain about VM behaviour - and we've > had some ccomplaints ("too swap-happy") although they haven't sounded like > really horrible problems.
To be completely honest, I dont't see any improvement in 2.5.x over 2.4.x on my boxes that are running both :-(.
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