From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267325AbTGNL26 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:28:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262577AbTGNL26 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:28:58 -0400 Received: from genius.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.210]:13022 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267325AbTGNL1B (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:27:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:41:44 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Romano Giannetti , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030714114144.GB5187@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Romano Giannetti , Linux Kernel References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <20030714083058.GC3706@pern.dea.icai.upco.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030714083058.GC3706@pern.dea.icai.upco.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:30:58AM +0200, Romano Giannetti wrote: > thanks a lot for the effort of writing this document. I think it's very > nice. > > I think that a very useful thing for have a quite large group of people > testing 2.6pre is a similar document that explain "what should I do with > my distribution to test 2.6pre?". For example, I have an uptodate > mandrake 9.1: it would be very nice to have a page where I can > download package/learn what to do to test a 2.6kernel. Anyone knows if > there is such a page over there? Otherwise, it would be nice that the > distribution's gurus could advice us... I've no objection to taking "heres links to packages for xxx distro" texts if people want to write them, but I don't have the time, nor knowledge to add these for every distro out there. And these days quite a few distros are starting to ship module-init-tools and the likes, so the situation shouldn't be too bad. Dave