> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > What about the MM stuff that Ben and Stephen are working
> > on? It seems rather important for stability and performance.
>
> With the timing, I'd suggest it goes into 2.3. It isn't ready yet, and it
> is a fundamentally much more involved operation than the other mm changes
> have been, so if I were to wait for it I'd then also have to wait for it
> to stabilize etc.
>
> Time to really start saying "2.3" to people, there's always going to be
> another kernel version for new features.
>
> Linus
Linus, how about making a commitment to the list the 2.3 will be short?
Set some goals. There are a thousand wish lists out there.. How about one
from you?
Right now there are numerous things that have been lurking outside of the
kernel as patches. Once 2.2 is released, several of those things should
come into stability.
Perhaps you could integrated the various new ext2 features (acls, btree
dirs, compression), MM, sound, and TCP updates (perhaps firewall chains?),
then go straight into a code-slush?
IMHO the 2.1 development cycle was much too long. I dont think that short
cycles are the answer, but I know that really long ones arn't.. 2.1 had a
lot of complex changes (exceptions, module symboling, smp, dcache) so a
longer cycle was warented.. Most of the the things I've seen 'slated' for
2.3 are changes to specific parts of the kernel, thus warenting a 'short'
cycle. No?
Gregory Maxwell
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