From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:49:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:49:39 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:2064 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:49:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:49:08 +0100 From: Hubert Mantel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions Message-ID: <20010109154908.F20539@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Hubert Mantel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A55447D.995FB159@goingware.com> <9350df$2md$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9350df$2md$1@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:31:27AM -0800 Organization: SuSE Labs, Nuernberg, Germany X-Operating-System: SuSE Linux - Kernel 2.2.16 X-PGP-Key: 1024D/B0DFF780, 1024R/CB848DFD Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, Jan 05, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > But that's very different from having somebody like RedHat, SuSE or > Debian make such a kernel part of their standard package. No, I don't > expect that they'll switch over completely immediately: that would show > a lack of good judgement. The prudent approach has always been to have > both a 2.2.19 and a 2.4.0 kernel on there, and ask the user if he wants > to test the new kernel first. Right, but now there is a problem: Software RAID. The RAID code of 2.4.0 is not backwards compatible to the one in 2.2.18; if somebody has used 2.4.0 on softraid and discovers some problem, he can not switch back to some official 2.2 kernel. In order to make it possible to switch between kernel releases, every vendor now really is forced to integrate the new RAID0.90 code to their 2.2 kernel. IMHO this code should be integrated to the next official 2.2 kernel so people can use whatever they want. > Linus -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/