Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:01:04 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote: > >>On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, David Ranson wrote: >> >>>Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> >>> >>>>- support for ipfwadm and ipchains was removed during 2.6 > > >>>Surely this one had loads of notice though? I was using iptables with >>>2.4 kernels. > > > Sure had. They were scheduled for removal in march, 2005 a long time ago. > > >>So was I. And now what? ipfwadm and ipchains should have been removed >>from 2.6.0 if 2.6.0 was not to support these. > > > Or in 2.6.10, or 2.6.27, or whatever. > > >> That opportunity was >>missed, the removal wasn't made up for in 2.6.1, so the stuff has to >>stick until 2.8.0. > > > Sorry, but the new development model is that there is no "uneven" series > anymore. Sure, it /might/ open for worldshattering changes, but nothing of > that sort is remotely in sight right now, so... > > >>>>- devfs support was removed during 2.6 >>> >>>Did this affect many 'real' users? > > >>This doesn't matter. A kernel that calls itself stable CAN NOT remove >>features unless they had been critically broken from the beginning. And >>this level of breakage is a moot point, so removal is not justified. > > > devfs was broken, and very little used.
Perhaps there is a cause and effect relationship? If devfs worked I don't see the need for every distro to have it's own udev (or mdev or sdev or whatever the flavor is this month). -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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