From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:27:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:26:58 -0500 Received: from femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.87]:62155 "EHLO femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:26:51 -0500 Message-ID: <002201c076c7$76cab720$8d19b018@c779218a> From: "Nicholas Knight" To: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:27:42 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" To: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions > > Linux 2.4 is now out, it is also what people should be concentrating on first > when issuing production drivers and driver updates. Effective from this point > 2.2 driver submissions or major driver updates will only be accepted if the > same code is also available for 2.4. > > Someone has to do the merging otherwise, and it isnt going to be me... This is the first time I'll have sent anything to this list, and I hadn't planned on sending anything for a long time to come, but I think in this case I must toss in my 2cents. While I understand the reasoning behind this, and might do the same thing if I was in your position, I feel it may be a mistake. I personaly do not trust the 2.4.x kernel entirely yet, and would prefer to wait for 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 before upgrading from 2.2.18 to ensure last-minute wrinkles have been completely ironed out, and I know there are people who share my viewpoint, and would rather use 2.2.XX for a while yet, and I'm afraid that this may partialy criple 2.2 driver development. It can take little or a lot of time to port a driver from 2.2 to 2.4, and in some cases people may just not want to do it untill 2.4 has gone through a little more refining, and that could take a while. To sum it up, I just don't think this is the right decision to make, at least not yet. My opinion probably won't matter one bit, but I thought I might as well toss it out there. -NK - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/