Re: 2.2 missing features

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Oct 1998 18:03:18 GMT


Followup to: <k2ogr9swcj.fsf@zero.aec.at>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In future it would be useful to adopt a policy to never accept changes for
> 2.0 unless 2.1 has the equivalent bug fix/change
>

Agreed. I know some very nice features that didn't make it into 2.1
because the authors were "doing [their] development on 2.0 and don't
want to deal with 2.1 as well". This is the tail wagging the dog,
folks.

-hpa

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