Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Using ilookup? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:53 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 04:50, David Woodhouse wrote: > > 2') A further issue here is that ilookup is not available in some older 2.4.x > > versions. Is it Ok to just patch the ilookup code in, say, 2.4.27 back into > > earlier versions (say 2.4.18 which seems a popular vintage for embedded stuff > > for some reason or other). > > No. If these people want new file systems and new features in code code, > why on earth are they still using 2.4.18? They should be on 2.6, or at > _least_ current 2.4 kernels. I could sort of understand if they've had a > lot of testing in the two and a half years since 2.4.18 was released and > they don't want to change _anything_.... but that obviously isn't the > case if they're adding new stuff like this.
2.4.18 is probably popular for embedded applications because that's about where development on the preempt/low latency patches for 2.4 stopped.
Lee
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