From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: should in-tree kernel source accommodate older kernel versions?
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:33:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717213309.GI14791@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707171718450.18509@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> should kernel source that's in the current source tree still try to
> accommodate older kernel versions? as an example, this is from
This has been discussed before, and the current thinking is to remove
support for versions of the kernel older than 2.6.0.
--
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 21:22 should in-tree kernel source accommodate older kernel versions? Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-17 21:33 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-07-17 21:36 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-17 21:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-07-18 9:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
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