From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262417AbVADXVh (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:21:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262163AbVADXNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:13:47 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:32182 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262378AbVADXLA (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:11:00 -0500 Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 From: Alan Cox To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Cc: Horst von Brand , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Rik van Riel , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III In-Reply-To: References: <200501041327.j04DRhfQ007850@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1104858355.17176.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:04:03 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 14:27, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > >> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I > >> want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously > >> annoy users and vendors. I downloaded the DRI drivers (test R300 code in CVS), qemu and Xen 8) > I can see no easy solution for this... If Linus decides to fork off > 2.7, development efforts will go into 2.7 and fixes should get > backported to 2.6. If Linus decides to stay with 2.6, new development > will have to be "conservative" enough not to break things that were > working. Its relatively easy to fix in kernel drivers for API changes during a release cycle and it helps enormously being able to do so. remap_page_range was rapidly fixed and very soon can vanish forever from the tree. Alan