From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262051AbTLBNNy (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262070AbTLBNNy (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13:54 -0500 Received: from strauss.physik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.75.28]:36295 "EHLO strauss.physik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262051AbTLBNNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:13:11 +0100 From: Ionut Georgescu To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 future Message-ID: <20031202131311.GA10915@physik.tu-cottbus.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo References: <200312011226.04750.nbensa@gmx.net> <20031202115436.GA10288@physik.tu-cottbus.de> <20031202120315.GK13388@conectiva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031202120315.GK13388@conectiva.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Because new hardware requires newest kernel, and neither I, nor the majority of the users out there have the knowledge to 'forward' apply patches. Even if 2.4 is phasing out, the process has just begun and it will last a lot until 2.6 will be ready for production systems. We are not talking about a fancy, experimental feature. We are talking about a mature, serious project, that has been traveling for 3 years along the 2.4 kernel and with even more years of testing and research behind. I find it just pitty for the linux kernel not to include it. When going to a conference, you don't present the brand new stuff you have just computed or measured the night before, because you just can't know if it is correct or not. Instead, you will present older, but mature work, that you can swear on. The same with the 2.6 kernel. Everybody is pushing it in front, but no one is using it for production systems. XFS and 2.4 are, even together, old, mature work, that anybody would 'present' anywhere. Regards, Ionut On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:03:15AM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0100, Ionut Georgescu escreveu: > > I can only second that. We've been using XFS here since the days of > > 2.4.0-testxx and the only problems we've had were sitting between the > > chair and the keyboard. > > So if there is no problems at all using it as a patch why add this to a > kernel that is phasing out? > > - Arnaldo > - > 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/ > -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you * can do anything the computer is able to do."