From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
dank@reflexsecurity.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-ac1 Matrox Compile Error
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:28:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030715192853.GE8240@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030715191328.GB20424@suse.de>
On Tue, 15 July 2003 20:13:28 +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, the good old embedded process is this:
Take what's availlable (2.4.5 then).
Adapt to the hardware.
Test for a while.
Ship it.
Don't touch it anymore.
So what is lunatic about doing the same with 2.6test? It may make the
test a little more expensive, but the adaptation will be cheaper, so
you are just about even. And the result is no less frightening than a
2.4.2 kernel with various backports from 2.4.younameit, and even more
quick hacks.
The only thing we agree on is that it would be loony to port known
working hardware to a newer kernel.
Jörn
--
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 16:03 2.6.0-test1-ac1 Matrox Compile Error Adam Voigt
2003-07-15 16:16 ` nick black
2003-07-15 16:40 ` James Simmons
2003-07-15 17:13 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-15 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-15 17:43 ` James Simmons
2003-07-15 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-15 18:36 ` James Simmons
2003-07-15 17:57 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-15 18:49 ` Jörn Engel
2003-07-15 19:13 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-15 19:28 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-07-15 19:32 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-15 20:00 ` Jörn Engel
2003-07-17 17:03 ` James Simmons
2003-07-17 17:07 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-17 17:37 ` James Simmons
2003-07-15 17:02 ` Adam Voigt
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