Re: New (now current development process)

Greg KH
2005-10-29T23:29:13Z

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:14:39AM +0530, Akula2 wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> This is my first mail to the Kernel tree:-
>
> > Everything said, I think 2.6.13->14 worked well enough, even if it's hard
> > to say how well a process works after one release. Considering that 2.6.13
> > had the painful PCI changes (you may not have noticed too much, since they
> > were x86 only) and there were some potentially painful SCSI changes in the
> > .14 early merges, so it's not like 13->14 was an "easy" release - so the
> > process certainly _seems_ to be workable.
>
> Will you please throw more light on the *painful* PCI & SCSI changees?

If it worked for you, it wasn't painful :)

But for PCI, we changed the way we did resource allocation for devices,
which caused a lot of odd problems on some machines.

thanks,

greg k-h