Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:28:39 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: New (now current development process) |
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:14:39AM +0530, Akula2 wrote: > Hi Linus, > > This is my first mail to the Kernel tree:- > > > Everything said, I think 2.6.13->14 worked well enough, even if it's hard > > to say how well a process works after one release. Considering that 2.6.13 > > had the painful PCI changes (you may not have noticed too much, since they > > were x86 only) and there were some potentially painful SCSI changes in the > > .14 early merges, so it's not like 13->14 was an "easy" release - so the > > process certainly _seems_ to be workable. > > Will you please throw more light on the *painful* PCI & SCSI changees?
If it worked for you, it wasn't painful :)
But for PCI, we changed the way we did resource allocation for devices, which caused a lot of odd problems on some machines.
thanks,
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