Re: New (now current development process)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:13:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent?
> 
> They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate 
> something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these 
> days. Which is problematic.
>...

There's also the question how to define feature-equivalent.

I want my computer to power off after "halt".

There's a significant difference between how much kernel code was 
required for this feature for my old computer and what is required for 
my new computer (in kernel 2.6.14):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  12721    2124     104   14949    3a65 arch/i386/kernel/apm.o
 136789    5724    4788  147301   23f65 drivers/acpi/built-in.o

> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

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