I never understood why people use older kernels. The only reason may be that some Linux distributions are made for business audience and they use old kernel since they are afraid of new (untested) things or they need some compatibility which was dropped in newer kernels.
I would suggest you to maintain only AUFS for the most recent kernel version and officially stop support for old kernels at all. If there is any user who needs AUFS for older kernel then he will have to explain why does he need it, and furthermore he will be politely asked to donate first, to get custom AUFS modifications for his kernel, since he will most likely be a business company which wants AUFS in order to MAKE SOME BUSINESS. Sane business customer may be willing to spend $1000 or more to get AUFS for his insanely old kernel :) This will make maintaining AUFS much easier, all users will happily get it for free for recent kernels, and you will optionally get paid for the hard work in supporting any of the old kernels for business clients. Does anybody have any objections here? :) Tomas M On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:53 PM, <sf...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Tomas M: >> I prefer if you drop support for all old kernels at all and maintain >> only AUFS for latest stable kernel. >> >> Just my personal preference :) > > Hehe, sometimes I feel such temptation. :-) > But, in real world, people are using incredibly old kernels. And aufs > should support not-too-old kernels as possible I am afraid. > > > J. R. Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d
