Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-04T17:46:47Z

Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@dplanet.ch>:
> > Oops. I wasn't going to tell anyone this yet, but since you've made
> > this argument I feel I must be up front here....
> >
> > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo
> > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so
> > will simplify his maintainance task no end. That's why I'm tracking
> > both sides of the fork in the rulebase, so it will be an easy drop-in
> > replacement for Marcelo as well as Linus.
>
> Don't do it!
> A stable kernel should be stable also on the building tools.

That will be Marcelo's call, not mine.
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Eric S. Raymond

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