"totally unstable" being defined as: My computers don't crash, and my
100%-mainline test kernels pass various Cerberus/LTP/crashme runs.
Of course, I am not totally focused on multi-million-dollar computers,
so maybe my perspective is skewed... ;-)
> The real philosophical question is "what is mainline 2.4 _for_"?
It's the 2.4 tree that's missing all the vendor junk unacceptable for
mainline.
> Yes, the real answer is to get 2.6 out the door, and move people onto it.
> But that will take a little while ... would be nice to get some way to
> alleviate the pain in the meantime.
Fixes should be applied to 2.4-mainline, certainly. Anything else just
wastes developer brain cycles and slows the move to 2.6.
Jeff
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