Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 16:48:27 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that other architectures have never been an issue for releasing new
> kernels, and that is _particularly_ true of architectures like parisc and
> mips that haven't even _tried_ to track development kernels. In fact, mips
> "anti-maintenance" has often actively discouraged people from even
> bothering to update mips code when adding new features.

Um.. hey! Just because we weren't trying to merge with you during 2.5
for a long time doesn't mean we weren't tracking development. Looking
at our CVS history, we've merged your tree into ours in:

 2.5.26
 2.5.32
 2.5.41
 2.5.43
 2.5.44
 2.5.45
 2.5.46
 2.5.47
 2.5.50
 2.5.51
 2.5.53
 2.5.54

Our outstanding diff vs your tree is about 200k gzipped and it's almost
all drivers. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any core changes
we still need. I don't think we're using any deprecated interfaces
(eg flush_page_to_ram, unlike m68k, mips, mips64, sparc32 & v850).

Of course, I don't consider having working PA-RISC in your tree to be
a prerequisite for release. I just object to being used as an example :-P

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