Re: starting with 2.7

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 14:27, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I
> >> want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously
> >> annoy users and vendors.

I downloaded the DRI drivers (test R300 code in CVS), qemu and Xen 8)

> I can see no easy solution for this... If Linus decides to fork off 
> 2.7, development efforts will go into 2.7 and fixes should get 
> backported to 2.6. If Linus decides to stay with 2.6, new development 
> will have to be "conservative" enough not to break things that were 
> working.

Its relatively easy to fix in kernel drivers for API changes during a
release cycle and it helps enormously being able to do so.
remap_page_range was rapidly fixed and very soon can vanish forever from
the tree.

Alan

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