From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263751AbTLAOYk (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:24:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263765AbTLAOYk (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:24:40 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:1257 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263751AbTLAOYi (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:24:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:11:00 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Xose Vazquez Perez Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24? In-Reply-To: <3FCB4506.8080305@wanadoo.es> 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 Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >> > >> I'm happy to include it in 2.4 when Jeff thinks its stable enough for a > >> stable series. ;) > > > I thought a bit more about this issue and I have a different opinion now. > > > > 2.6 is getting more and more stable and already includes libata --- users > > who need it should use 2.6. > > Does it mean that 2.4.x is going to freeze, and only critical and security > patches are going to be applied ? Yes this will happen in the near future. I still might accept some "non critical" modifications (which is btw, not an objective defition) to 2.4.24, but for 2.4.25 that will be the rule.