Daniel> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
>> A lot of people don't seem to realise just how tricky it is
>> building a stable across all platforms/configurations system.
Daniel> I do realize that. I'm saying there should be at least *SOME*
Daniel> sanity checks before releasing even a "development" kernel.
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Daniel> I don't think it is a good service to the advancement of Linux
Daniel> if released kernels do not compile.
Daniel> Like I said, I would volunteer to test-compile 2.1.X kernels.
Daniel> If kernels are not tested in any way, they should be in a
Daniel> different directory and be called pre-<Version>.
Bollocks!
2.1.x kernels are developer versions, if they work for you fine, if
they don't try to sort it out and fix it.
a) I do not want to wait until some PC owner has verified that all PC
drivers works on his particular machine. This would make the turn
times for kernel releases several days for no sane reason.
b) You cannot verify everything, and I bet just because ISDN compiles
for you, doesn't mean that the SCSI driver for my Amiga compiles for
me.
We can put out pre releases for 2.0.x kernels and I agree that is
important, but for 2.1.x kernels its only necessary where we want to
avoid things like filesystem corruption etc.
Many of the 2.1.x releases are HUGE and waiting for everything to be
fixed can take weeks, especially if the people with the knowledge of a
particular part of the code are either unreachable or busy with other
things.
Jes