From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264370AbTLBUTm (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:19:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264365AbTLBUTD (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:19:03 -0500 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:41255 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264353AbTLBUSz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:18:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:18:00 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Peter C. Norton" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Ian Kent , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 future Message-ID: <20031202201800.GB2030@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20031201153316.B3879@infradead.org> <20031201213651.GK18176@lenin.nu> <1070322894.5260.5.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20031202201040.GX18176@lenin.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031202201040.GX18176@lenin.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:10:40PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:54:54AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:36, Peter C. Norton wrote: > > ` > > > encouraging the distros to get behind autofs4 (hint hint, redhat, > > > hint). > > > > I suspect you'll have a really hard time finding ANY distro that still > > wants to actively develop new products on a 2.4 codebase. > > Perhaps, but some rather large customers of AS2.1, would like it if > redhat could deliver the large outstanding automounting features for > their (mainly sun) environments. Since these environments resist > change, upgrading a kernel to include a newer autofs4 is more likely > than upgrading the whole system. and putting a feature into 2.4.23 is going to help/change that... how ?