Re: linux-2.2 future?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 10:06:07 EST


On Llu, 2003-08-25 at 17:42, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> like .21 and .22 IDE code is, but it works very very smooth and nice and rock
> solid. We use the 2.2-secure tree for almost all customers in my company.
> Biggest harddisk is a 160GB Maxtor IDE disk.

The problem is that change breaks stuff. a lot of the 2.2 users will
happily trade lack of LBA48 support for stability and predictability.
Thats why I took a basically "if its not a serious bugfix its not going
in" approach

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