Re: [STATUS 2.5] July 17, 2002

[Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:19:39AM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:

 > > | With the code freeze date approaching soon, it is obvious that many
 > > Oct. 31 is feature freeze date, or so several of us understood.
 > 
 > That is correct. And, for a feature, we only need a header file to be in, 
 > right? ;)

Hmmmmmm 8-)
wrt to post-halloween features, things like new drivers that require no
core changes aren't an issue, but things like ripping out the VM and
replacing with a new one should probably wait until 2.6.10 or so.[*]

 > Please don't. While it would be nice if x86 init were a bit nicer, and 
 > things like CPUs were added in a 'hotpluggable' manner, I won't be 
 > dedicating time to this. At least not in near future...

Rusty seems to have a good handle on the hotplug bits, whether
bringing them up in a hotplug manner is his intention I'm not sure,
but it does seem to be going in that direction afaics.

        Dave

[*] j/k of course. (at least, I hope so).

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