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

Wayne.Brown
2001-12-04T18:46:21Z

Amen! Those are *exactly* the reasons I play with kernel upgrades.

Wayne

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> on 12/04/2001 12:26:27 PM

To: trini@kernel.crashing.org (Tom Rini)
cc: dalecki@evision.ag, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig),
esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond), kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens),
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@transmeta.com (bcc: Wayne
Brown/Corporate/Altec)

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

> > > Python2 - which means most users dont have it.
>
> Most users sure as hell shouldn't be playing with 2.5.x right now
> anyways. With any sort of 'luck' it'll be 6 months at least before
> 2.5.x becomes stable enough that it will probably compile all the time
> again and not have a random fs eating bug. In 6 months even woody might
> be frozen :)

It wont become stable if nobody can configure it because nobody will build
it or run it. Lots of people build non stable kernels because its

a) fun
b) a way to learn and play with the system
c) they might make their own small fix and mark

not all of the them are demon kernel hackers.

Alan
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