Re: 2.6.3-rc3-mm1

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 16:13:57 EST


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> > I think it was a good change, and was appropriate to 2.5.x. But for 2.6.x
> > the benefit didn't seem to justify the depth of the change.

Rather unfortunate that allyes didn't fix things.

> And will it be appropriate for 2.7? It really does give a start to
> trimming code you don't want in a small kernel, and would have been nice
> so people could use it for any processor specific additions to 2.6.
>
> Not arguing, but it was a step to improve control of creeping unnecessary
> archetecture support.

Well the -tiny tree has that and a lot more drastic trimmings, Andrew is
there already an arrangement to feed the not so brutal changes to you?

Zwane
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