From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, <kessler@us.ibm.com>,
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<saw@saw.sw.com.sg>, <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
<richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:57:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210030852330.2066-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210031551.g93FpwsR000330@darkstar.example.net>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
>
> I think we should stick to incrementing the major number when binary
> compatibility is broken.
"Stick to"? We've never had that as any criteria for major numbers in the
kernel. Binary compatibility has _never_ been broken as a release policy,
only as a "that code is old, and we've given people 5 years to migrate to
the new system calls, the old ones are TOAST".
The only policy for major numbers has always been "major capability
changes". 1.0 was "networking is stable and generally usable" (by the
standards of that time), while 2.0 was "SMP and true multi-architecture
support". My planned point for 3.0 was NuMA support, but while we actually
have some of that, the hardware just isn't relevant enough to matter.
The memory management issues would qualify for 3.0, but my argument there
is really that I doubt everybody really is happy yet. Which was why I
asked for people to test it and complain about VM behaviour - and we've
had some ccomplaints ("too swap-happy") although they haven't sounded like
really horrible problems.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 206+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 1:54 [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAID device driver Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 2:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-26 22:55 ` [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice driver Larry Kessler
2002-09-26 22:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-27 2:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-27 4:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-28 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-28 9:16 ` jw schultz
2002-09-30 14:05 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-09-30 10:22 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-30 11:10 ` jw schultz
2002-09-30 11:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-09-30 19:48 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-30 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-28 15:40 ` Kernel version [Was: Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice driver] Horst von Brand
2002-09-29 1:31 ` v2.6 vs v3.0 Linus Torvalds
2002-09-29 6:14 ` james
2002-09-29 6:55 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-29 12:59 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-09-29 13:46 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-09-29 14:06 ` Wakko Warner
2002-09-29 15:42 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 16:17 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30 0:39 ` Jeff Chua
2002-09-29 16:22 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 16:26 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 21:46 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-30 7:05 ` Michael Clark
2002-09-30 7:22 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-30 13:08 ` Kevin Corry
2002-09-30 13:05 ` Kevin Corry
2002-09-30 13:49 ` Michael Clark
2002-09-30 14:26 ` Kevin Corry
2002-09-30 13:59 ` Michael Clark
2002-09-30 15:50 ` Kevin Corry
2002-09-29 17:06 ` Jochen Friedrich
2002-09-29 15:18 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-09-29 15:45 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 15:59 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-09-29 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 16:13 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-09-30 6:54 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-09-30 18:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-01 12:38 ` Matthias Andree
2002-10-04 19:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-29 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-29 17:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-29 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30 9:53 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-30 11:54 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30 12:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 13:05 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 2:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-30 16:39 ` jbradford
2002-09-30 16:47 ` Pau Aliagas
2002-09-29 7:16 ` jbradford
2002-09-29 8:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29 8:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-29 9:12 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 11:19 ` Murray J. Root
2002-09-29 15:50 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-30 7:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-09-29 16:04 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-29 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 15:38 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 16:30 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 16:42 ` Bjoern A. Zeeb
2002-09-29 21:16 ` Russell King
2002-09-29 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 21:49 ` steve
2002-09-29 21:52 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-30 7:31 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-30 15:33 ` Jan Harkes
2002-09-30 18:13 ` Jeff Willis
2002-09-29 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-29 18:13 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2002-09-30 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-01 6:26 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 7:54 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-10-01 8:27 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 8:44 ` jbradford
2002-10-01 11:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-01 11:25 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 15:34 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-29 17:26 ` Jochen Friedrich
2002-09-29 17:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-30 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-01 19:28 ` IPv6 stability (success story ;) Petr Baudis
2002-09-29 9:15 ` v2.6 vs v3.0 Jens Axboe
2002-09-29 19:53 ` james
2002-09-29 15:26 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-29 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 22:00 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-30 19:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-30 18:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-03 15:51 ` [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice) jbradford
2002-10-03 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2002-10-03 16:16 ` [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem jbradford
2002-10-03 22:30 ` Greg KH
2002-10-04 6:33 ` jbradford
2002-10-04 6:37 ` Greg KH
2002-10-04 7:17 ` jbradford
2002-10-04 7:30 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 16:37 ` [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice) Alan Cox
2002-10-03 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-03 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 19:55 ` jlnance
2002-10-03 16:51 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-03 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 20:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-03 22:05 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-04 3:46 ` Andreas Boman
2002-10-04 7:44 ` jbradford
2002-10-03 19:51 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-04 22:26 ` [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA) Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-04 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05 0:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-05 0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05 1:25 ` Michael Hohnbaum
2002-10-05 20:30 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) Rob Landley
2002-10-06 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-06 9:42 ` Russell King
2002-10-06 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-06 13:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-06 15:19 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-06 15:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-07 8:08 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-07 9:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-07 14:11 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-07 15:01 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-10-07 15:34 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-08 3:12 ` [OT] " Scott Mcdermott
2002-10-10 23:49 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-07 15:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-08 13:49 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-07 17:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 18:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-07 20:31 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not3.0 " Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 20:44 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 " Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 21:16 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not3.0 " Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 23:47 ` jw schultz
2002-10-11 0:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-07 18:58 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 " Chris Friesen
2002-10-07 19:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 0:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-08 2:59 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 16:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-08 19:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 17:06 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-07 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 2:36 ` Simon Kirby
2002-10-08 2:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-08 2:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 2:54 ` Simon Kirby
2002-10-08 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 16:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-08 12:49 ` jlnance
2002-10-08 17:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 20:53 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-10-08 13:54 ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-08 15:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-07 19:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 20:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 20:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 21:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 22:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-07 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 8:49 ` Padraig Brady
2002-10-07 22:14 ` Charles Cazabon
2002-10-30 18:26 ` Lee Leahu
2002-10-06 6:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-07 5:28 ` John Alvord
2002-10-07 8:39 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 n Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-07 13:56 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) Jesse Pollard
2002-10-07 14:03 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-08 22:14 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-10-08 19:11 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-09 8:17 ` Alexander Kellett
2002-10-07 18:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-08 8:19 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-11 23:53 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-11 20:26 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-12 4:14 ` Nick LeRoy
2002-10-13 17:27 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-12 10:03 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-13 17:32 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-13 23:51 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-14 16:33 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-14 7:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-21 15:36 ` [OT] Please don't call it 3.0!! (was Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))) Calin A. Culianu
2002-10-21 16:20 ` Wakko Warner
2002-10-12 11:42 ` The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) Matthias Andree
2002-10-12 14:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-27 11:32 ` [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice driver Alan Cox
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