From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Basto Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:13:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1306426437.6981.14.camel@segulix> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> <20110524154348.27ba649d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alan Cox , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , Ted Ts'o , Linux Kernel Mailing List , DRI , Jan Engelhardt , Jacek Luczak , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-fsdevel , Linus Torvalds To: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" Return-path: Received: from relay6.ptmail.sapo.pt ([212.55.154.26]:41528 "HELO sapo.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932523Ab1EZQUo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 12:20:44 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO sergiomb.no-ip.org) (sergiomb@sapo.pt@[188.83.245.204]) (envelope-sender ) by mta12 (qmail-ptmail-1.0.0) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 May 2011 16:14:04 -0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:07 -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox > wrote: > > Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a > big > > version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all > in > > git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some > crawly > > horror back from the dead. >=20 > 2.8 could mark the beginning of the great cleanup > --- work out the details of what needs to be cleaned and set a goal > --- remove old buses/driver, switch to device tree, graphics, 32/64 > merges, etc > 3.0 would mark its completion=20 Here it go my opinion, Many people ask for beginning of 2.7 kernel series which will end on 2.8, by old numeration.=20 Kernel 2.8 will mainly a major clean up, of support of the very old hardware, like "math co-processor" at only exist in 386 and before Pentium. If some one want put Linux on this very old hardware should us= e kernel 2.2. However a new numeration of kernel is independent of this, and I agree with new numeration of kernel on drop a number.=20 Last but not least, I would like to see marked a hiper stable kernel , which will be used by Debian guys. Debian guys tend to stop in a kernel which is not the best one, so let we choose for them what is the stable of stables . =20 Best regards,=20 --=20 S=C3=A9rgio M. B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html