On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:16:54PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:19:41PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Look at the pressure to get stuff into 2.4 when it's already in 2.5. Because
> > 2.4 is what people are actually using, and 2.5 is really just for os
> > development and testing (and general playing with) at this point.
>
> If stuff in 2.5 wasn't soo broken (looking at IDE here) then more people
> would be using it, and less people would be wanting the 2.5 features back
> ported to 2.4. IMHO, at the moment 2.5 has a major problem. It is not
> getting the testing it deserves because things like IDE and such like
> aren't reasonably stable enough.
And the obvious answer to this is a backport of the 2.4 IDE subsystem
to 2.5..... CONFIG_IDE_WONT_FIND_NEW_E2FSCK_BUGS, anyone? :-)
- Ted
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