Re: Slow development cycle

From: Kenneth C. Arnold (kcarnold@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 18:26:36 EST


> > Why keep that? Should this get cleaned up? And also there are several ways
> > used to check the versions -- LinuxKernelVersion(x,y,z),
> > Linux_Kernel_Version(x,y,z), and the straight numbers in some cases,
> > to name a few. Clean these up? Okay, I'll work on it.
>
> Clean them up but check with maintainers for some things - eg with the
> advansys driver its maintainers want a single tree.

Ok... I guess the cleaning up part will be easier than the submitting it
to everybody part in this case...

> > > The big big one right now is probably to use the USB stuff aggressively
> > > and report problems/fix them. The USB stuff is almost there but it really
> > > does need lots of people using it who are prepared to chase down oopses
> > > they get and fix the locking and other little glitches left.
> >
> > So that's what 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 are for. The distros won't pick it up
> > until ~ 2.4.5 anyway.
>
> Well it would be nice to make it work for 2.4.0 wouldnt it 8)

There's a difference between "it works" and "it's perfect". I think we've
passed the "it works" stage right now. I guess that depends on your
definition of "works" :)

Kenneth

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