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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using ilookup?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097680972.5879.14.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097657423.5178.42.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 04:50, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 2') A further issue here is that ilookup is not available in some older 2.4.x 
> > versions. Is it Ok to just patch the ilookup code in, say, 2.4.27 back into 
> > earlier versions (say 2.4.18 which seems a popular vintage for embedded stuff 
> > for some reason or other).
> 
> No. If these people want new file systems and new features in code code,
> why on earth are they still using 2.4.18? They should be on 2.6, or at
> _least_ current 2.4 kernels. I could sort of understand if they've had a
> lot of testing in the two and a half years since 2.4.18 was released and
> they don't want to change _anything_.... but that obviously isn't the
> case if they're adding new stuff like this.

2.4.18 is probably popular for embedded applications because that's
about where development on the preempt/low latency patches for 2.4
stopped.

Lee 


      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-13  1:42 Using ilookup? Charles Manning
2004-10-13  5:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-10-13 18:07   ` Charles Manning
2004-10-13  8:50 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-13 15:22   ` Lee Revell [this message]

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