Re: Linux 2.5.70

Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27T17:14:02Z

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ricky Beam wrote:
>
> Count up the number of drivers that haven't been updated to the current
> PCI, hotplug, and modules interfaces.

Tough. If people don't use them, they don't get supported. It's that easy.

The thing is, these things won't change before 2.6 (or at least a
pre-2.6). When 2.6.0 comes out, and somebody notices that they haven't
bothered to try the 2.5.x series, _then_ maybe some of those odd-ball
drivers get fixed.

Or not. Some of them may be literally due for retirement, with users just
running an old kernel on old hardware.

Btw, this is nothing new. It has _always_ been the case that a lot of
people didn't use the latest stable kernel until it was released, and then
they complained because the drivers they used weren't up to spec.

Linus