Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:14:31 +0100

torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> And discussing this at this point is useless anyway. It's not getting
> past the code-freeze - if people haven't been needing it before now,
> there's no excuse for saying that we need it NOW.
>
> Linus

s/NOW/Before the next stable release is out/

Even if we don't need it now, we ought to be including it if we need it before
the next stable release. If the 2.3 development cycle is as long as the 2.1
one, then that's a long way away.

Too many people (myself included) are using development kernels on production
machines. As long ago as last July, I was basing an embedded network system on
2.1 kernels, simply because 2.0 was so far behind.

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