Re: Linux 2.5.70

Alan Cox
2003-05-27T17:33:50Z

On Maw, 2003-05-27 at 18:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Its also a lot easier to update them once the core stops changing! There
are some things I worry about - the bio splitting has to be resolved,
IDE raid can't happen until that occurs and I'm also waiting for the IDE
taskfile stuff/bio splitting bits to resolve so I can merge a load of
IDE updates to make things like SII IDE and newer HPT chips work in
2.5.x/2.6

Architectures are also normally just a sync up job and its again easier
to do once the core has stoppee changing.