From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:33:09 +0000 Subject: Re: should in-tree kernel source accommodate older kernel versions? Message-Id: <20070717213309.GI14791@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org 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."