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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:52:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030513225256.GY8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030513222532.GA13317@suse.de>

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:17:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> But I do not view non-ia32 support as being a 2.6.0 requirement.  I'd be OK
>> with 2.6.0 working _only_ on ia32.  Other architectures will catch up when
>> they can.  The only core requirement is that 2.6.0 not contain gross
>> x86isms which make other ports impossible.

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:25:32PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> I kinda sorta agree. Holding up 2.6.0 for other ports to catch up
> could end up with us waiting, and in the meantime, Linus merging other
> stuff which could break non-x86 etc..
> Once we're into 2.6.x though, would it be unfeasable to hold off on
> final point releases until arch maintainers have sent in a 'make things
> work for this release' diff ? Ie, make rc's "strict bugfixes only, and
> arch updates"
> Though, for some archs (sparc32 springs to mind), we may end up waiting
> quite a while, so perhaps just settle on a handful of 'to be kept
> up-to-date' archs ?

MIPS seems to be taking a while too.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12 22:54 2.6 must-fix list, v2 Andrew Morton
2003-05-12 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-13  4:05   ` viro
2003-05-13  5:00     ` Greg KH
2003-05-13 11:36   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 13:57     ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 15:16       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 15:22         ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 15:32           ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 15:47             ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 16:02               ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 16:09                 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 16:27                   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 16:45                     ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 16:53                       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 22:50                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-13 17:38                 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 17:59                   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 15:59     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-13 16:11       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 18:09         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-13 20:15         ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-13 20:25           ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 13:57   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-13 15:00     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-13 15:12       ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-13 15:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-13 15:50       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-13 16:59         ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-13 20:07           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-05-13 20:12             ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-13 19:51       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-05-13 20:17       ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-13 22:25         ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 22:52           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-13 23:43           ` Russell King
2003-05-14  8:09             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1052866140.9783.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-05-14  2:32           ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-05-14 16:21         ` Tom Rini
2003-05-17  8:58       ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-13 15:47     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 15:06       ` Alan Cox
2003-05-13 16:20         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-13 17:52       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-05-13 18:11         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-17  8:56     ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-13  0:22 ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-14 18:21 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-14  2:05 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-14  2:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-14 12:05   ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-13 20:04 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-13 17:12 James Bottomley
2003-05-13 18:11 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-13 18:18   ` James Bottomley
2003-05-13 19:14     ` Mike Anderson
     [not found] <20030512155417.67a9fdec.akpm@digeo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20030512155511.21fb1652.akpm@digeo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-05-13  6:00   ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-13  1:57 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-12 11:20 Processor sets (pset) for linux kernel 2.5/2.6? Shaheed R. Haque
2003-04-12 19:56 ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-04-12 20:02   ` Robert Love
2003-04-13  8:30     ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-04-13 14:28       ` Robert Love
2003-05-13 11:49         ` 2.6 must-fix list, v2 Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-13 20:02           ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-13 22:46             ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-14  2:42               ` Steven Cole
2003-05-14 11:49                 ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-14 13:08                   ` Steven Cole
2003-05-13 22:49             ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-14 11:02               ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-14 15:59                 ` Robert Love
2003-05-14 16:04                   ` Robert Love
2003-05-14 21:01                   ` shaheed
2003-05-14 21:15                     ` Robert Love
2003-05-15  9:19                       ` Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-15 15:32                         ` Robert Love
2003-05-15 20:07                           ` shaheed
2003-05-15 20:20                             ` Robert Love
2003-05-15 20:24                             ` Robert Love
2003-05-15 21:30                               ` shaheed

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