From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269589AbTGOS7f (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:59:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269595AbTGOS7e (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:59:34 -0400 Received: from genius.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.210]:23712 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269589AbTGOS7Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:59:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:13:28 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: J?rn Engel Cc: James Simmons , Alan Cox , dank@reflexsecurity.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-ac1 Matrox Compile Error Message-ID: <20030715191328.GB20424@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , J?rn Engel , James Simmons , Alan Cox , dank@reflexsecurity.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1058290204.3857.51.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030715175758.GC15505@suse.de> <20030715184909.GD8240@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715184909.GD8240@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:49:09PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > > One bug at a time. With the CONFIG_EMBEDDED hack, yes it will 'hide' > > this problem, but it'll likely be many months before embedded folks > > start thinking of using 2.6 anyways. > s/many month/half a second/ > > Even for embedded, 2.[56] is so much nicer that I wouldn't want to do > any new project with 2.4 anymore. Continue the old ones, all right, > but that's about it. Sorry, any vendor contemplating shipping 2.6test in a device at this stage is a lunatic. I don't care about lunatics. As we saw recently there are a lot of wireless routers and the like out there all stuck on some magical 2.4.5 kernel. That sucks, but it's at least better than putting beta quality code in something people pay money for. Dave