Re: starting with 2.7

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 3 Jan 2005, at 22:48, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> > > Unfortunately, you can't force the entire hardware industry to open up 
> > > their drivers.
> >
> > That's ok.  I don't have to buy that hardware.
>
> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I 
> want to keep using them.

That's your choice, and you (and your vendors) will have to
deal with the issues.  I don't see why we should hold back
the development of Linux for it...

> Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously annoy users and vendors.

On the other hand, not having a feature users need available
in a stable kernel also annoys users and vendors.  During the
2.4 days this lead to every distribution needing to do a bunch
of backports from the 2.5 kernel, and the availability of 2.4
kernels with every possible subset of 2.5 features - but none
with all the features.  Arguably, that is a much worse situation
for users and vendors than a faster-changing 2.6 tree, where at
least everybody is using the same tree.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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