From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:46:05 +0000 Subject: Re: should in-tree kernel source accommodate older kernel versions? Message-Id: <20070717214604.GJ14791@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 05:36:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 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. > > *that* part was self-evident. i'm talking more specifically about > older versions of 2.6.x, in particular features that aren't even > *supported* anymore in the current tree. You'll find people very resistant to patches that remove support for older 2.6.x kernels. -- "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."