From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263472AbUEGJub (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 05:50:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263394AbUEGJub (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 05:50:31 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:63759 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263472AbUEGJtA (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 05:49:00 -0400 Message-ID: <409B5BF0.6070609@aitel.hist.no> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:50:40 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Linux Kernel ML Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 (4KSTACK) References: <20040505013135.7689e38d.akpm@osdl.org> <200405051312.30626.dominik.karall@gmx.net> <200405051822.i45IM2uT018573@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040505215136.GA8070@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200405061518.i46FIAY2016476@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1083858033.3844.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <200405061629.i46GTm2x018759@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200405061629.i46GTm2x018759@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:40:33 +0200, Arjan van de Ven said: > > >>Ok I don't want to start a flamewar but... Do we want to hold linux back >>until all binary only module vendors have caught up ?? >> >> > >No.. I merely suggested that coordinating with as few as possibly one vendor to >clean their module up might minimize the pain considerably. > I don't see much of a problem. So what if Linus puts 4k stacks in 2.6.6 tomorrow? It won't kill linux for all those nvidia users. They'll simply have to stop at 2.6.5 until nvidia catch up. Not much of a problem, considering how the majority still runs various versions of 2.4.x. Helge Hafting