From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269628AbTGJWMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:12:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269589AbTGJWMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:12:52 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15756 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269633AbTGJWLm (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:11:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Russell King cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.75 In-Reply-To: <20030710223548.A20214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Russell King wrote: > > Well, only two words from me. Oh Shit. Hey, this is already much later than it should have been, so it's not as if this is a huge surprise. > The 2.5.70 ARM patch currently looks like this: We can sort it out later. Obviously, clearly arm-specific patches (ie stuff in arch/arm and include/asm-arm) I wouldn't mind per se, but I'd rather hold back on even those just to make the patches and the changlogs not be mixed up with the "main bugfixes". We've never had a first stable release that has all architectures up-to-date, and I'm not planning on changing that for 2.6.x. This is _not_ the time to try to make my tree build on arm (or other architectures either), considering that my tree hasn't been the main ARM tree for a long time. > Frustrated such an understatement. To be blunt, which part of "we want to release 2.6.x this year" came as a surprise to you? I That means that I'm not willing to hold stuff up any more. Stuff that hasn't followed the development tree doesn't magically just "get fixed". Also, the only real point of a stable release is for distribution makers. That pretty much cuts the list of "needs to be supported" down to x86, ia64, x86-64 and possibly sparc/alpha. So everything else is a bonus, but can equally well just play catch-up later. Embedded people tend to want to stay back anyway, which is obviously why they don't follow the development tree in the first place. Linus