Re: New Linux Development Model

From: Ian Kumlien
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 14:46:52 EST


On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 19:29 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 15:10, Mark Lord wrote:
> [snip]
> > But things just got WAY more complicated for most users of ipw2200.
> > Sure, they can ignore us and just continue to run their old vendor
> > kernels. But this means they don't get up-to-date kernels with
> > bug fixes and security fixes. And more importantly to LKML,
> > we've now just cut off a potentially large crowd of kernel-testers.
> >
> > Ugh. Ugly.
>
> I completely agree with this assessment, I was merely defending the "linux
> development process" which I do not believe to be at fault here.

It isn't, this started as a mail from someone, and was continued because
ipw* and ieee* things was mentioned. I really hope that a newer version
is merged... It can be branded experimental and all... =)

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Ian Kumlien <pomac () vapor ! com> -- http://pomac.netswarm.net

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