Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Fri Jun 18 2004 - 10:17:51 EST


On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:43:19AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Yes, this is a hint at certain embedded developers. You
> know who you are and chances are you also know what you would
> like to develop if you no longer had to spend your time porting
> the same old patches from one version of the product to the next.

The shame of things is that the economic/effort problem appears to
often be "solved" by never migrating to new kernel versions, or
otherwise by amortizing the work involved with infrequent migrations.

I wish I had answers.


-- wli
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