> Since many people will want to stay at 1.4/2.0 (like many did and still
> do at 1.2), this may easily lead to some "unofficial standard patch",
> which has unpleasant maintenance properties for distributors and for
> users who want to rebuild the kernel.
>
Like ELF-compileable 1.2.13... but even more ugly.
> bzImage+initrd don't touch too many other areas of the system, so I
> think there'd be more than enough time to stabilize it in 1.3.
>
Yep.
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