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 20:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:03:21 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:33332 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:03:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:03:20 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hubert Mantel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions Message-ID: <20010110020320.P29904@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010109154908.F20539@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:33:10AM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Hubert Mantel wrote: > > 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. [...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:33:10AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > [ the only category impacted are people who are still using the > RAID1/RAID4,5 code in the stock 2.2 kernel - i do believe the number of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's the category Hubert was talking about indeed. Andrea - 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/