Re: Linux 2.5.70

ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-05-28T19:15:06Z

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 19:14, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Just the other day you posted strong opposition to breaking existing
> > binaries, how does that map with breaking existing hardware?
>
> One fundamental difference is that I cannot fix it without people who
> _have_ the hardware caring. So if they don't care, I don't care. It's that
> easy. If you want to have your hardware supported, you need to help
> support it.

Quite true. But there are bugs at kernel bugzilla which

1- People care about it being fixed
2- Tests beta kernels to see if its fixed
3- Reports success/failures

But still these bugs are unresolved. I do not say/mean kernel hackers do not
care them or something like that but it would be better to get these kind of
bugs ( with user base who tests them ) fixed before pre-2.6 releases.

Regards,
/ismail