Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

[Andrea Arcangeli]

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> > Right, but now there is a problem: Software RAID. The RAID code of
> > 2.4.0 is not backwards compatible to the one in 2.2.18; if somebody
> > has used 2.4.0 on softraid and discovers some problem, he can not
> > switch back to some official 2.2 kernel. [...]
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:33:10AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [ the only category impacted are people who are still using the
> RAID1/RAID4,5 code in the stock 2.2 kernel - i do believe the number of
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's the category Hubert was talking about indeed.

Andrea