From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:44:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:44:31 -0400 Received: from 213-98-127-214.uc.nombres.ttd.es ([213.98.127.214]:36265 "HELO demo.mitica") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:44:30 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Padraig Brady , Anton Altaparmakov , Martin Dalecki , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 In-Reply-To: X-Url: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela From: Juan Quintela Date: 08 May 2002 09:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "linus" == Linus Torvalds writes: Hi linus> (Side note: I'm afraid that don't think backwards compatibility weighs linus> very heavily on an embedded setup - I'm more thinking about things like "a linus> regular RedHat/SuSE/Debian/whatever install won't work any more".) here at Mandrake we have a patch for the install kernel to remove the /proc/ide, and I think that we got it from redhat, that means that at least two distros preffer to save ~25kb in the boot kernels than the reporting that they do :p Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy