Re: Linux 2.5.75

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:14:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok. This is it. We (Andrew and me) are going to start a "pre-2.6" series,
> where getting patches in is going to be a lot harder. This is the last
> 2.5.x kernel, so take note.

Well, only two words from me.  Oh Shit.

The 2.5.70 ARM patch currently looks like this:

 343 files changed, 45388 insertions(+), 7341 deletions(-)

and I don't see that this will be reducing in size now that 2.6 is around
the corner.

I _know_ ARM stuff doesn't build and hasn't built in Linus' tree for a
fair time now - there are some generic changes to support ARM modules
needed in vmalloc.c which I just haven't had the time to sort out, and
there's still the issue of whether /proc/kcore actually works or not,
and now I see that the time stuff needs re-working for multiple ARM
platforms yet again.  (yes, all the other architectures got updated,
except for ARM.)

Maybe I should just forget even attempting to merge upstream, like most
of the ARM community doesn't.

Frustrated such an understatement.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html