Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> 
> Besides, most people using Software RAID have been using 0.90 for
> at least two years - so I doubt this would have been much of a problem
> if the 0.90 patches weren't available for 2.2, which they are.

This is probably th eimportant part. Most heavy RAID 2.2.x users have in
fact probably already used the "new" 2.4.x interface for some time.

I do agree with Alan, though: the decision on making that the _official_
2.2.x interface is a nasty decision. It will screw some people, and they
would be right in being unhappy about interface changes in the middle of a
stable kernel release.

For 2.2.x I suspect that 0.90 should continue to just be a (common) extra
patch.

			Linus