From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263176AbTJZPSi (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:18:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263195AbTJZPSi (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:18:38 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:5791 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263176AbTJZPSh (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:18:37 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 <-> 2.6 compatibility Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:18:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20031026150544.GJ15838@merlin.emma.line.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BPV+68R2Q40tD3aRH3LgpYJuW6I= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthias Andree writes: > To enlarge the testing base, it would be good if people could just drop > a 2.6 kernel, some user-space updates and then dual-boot 2.4 and 2.6 > hassle free at will without worrying about a dozen 2.4 kernel patches to > make it compatible with the new user space. I've been doing that for months. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se