Re: New (now current development process)

Adrian Bunk
2005-11-01T14:16:00Z

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:13:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent?
>
> They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate
> something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these
> days. Which is problematic.
>...

There's also the question how to define feature-equivalent.

I want my computer to power off after "halt".

There's a significant difference between how much kernel code was
required for this feature for my old computer and what is required for
my new computer (in kernel 2.6.14):

text data bss dec hex filename
12721 2124 104 14949 3a65 arch/i386/kernel/apm.o
136789 5724 4788 147301 23f65 drivers/acpi/built-in.o

> Linus

cu
Adrian

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