Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:29:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: There's a few reports against 2.4 kernel that are fixed in 2.6 and are unlikely to get in 2.4 every (Examples: #146956 or #130217). How should we deal with them

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:29:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: There's a few reports against 2.4 kernel that are fixed in 2.6 and are unlikely to get in 2.4

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Yeah, in the meantime, i need to release a 2.4.26 kernel as there are people clamoring for it, since the 2.4.25 has some security holes whose fixes where not backported, and 2.6 is not considered stable by some users yet (and if you

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:53:50AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:51:22 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: So, i am seriously considering dropping all 2.4 powerpc kernels, and going with 2.6 only, and would like to get feedback both from debian-kernel as well as debian-powerpc,

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a wider audience. Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even benh has mentioned to me that 2.4 support for powerpc will be going away in the near term (well, not the eact words, but you get

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Jens [...] is comaintainer of the 2.4 kernels. Nope. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a wider audience. Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even benh has mentioned to me that 2.4 support for powerpc will be going

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:32:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a wider audience. Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 03:51, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a wider audience. Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even benh has mentioned to me that 2.4 support for powerpc will be going away

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 03:51, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a wider audience. Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Well... That isn't really what I said ;) What I said is that I don't have time to actively maintain the PowerMac support in 2.4, that is make it evolve support newer machines. That doesn't mean that PPC will be going away from 2.4 ;) I think the exact quote was that you are not going

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Well... That isn't really what I said ;) What I said is that I don't have time to actively maintain the PowerMac support in 2.4, that is make it evolve support newer machines. That doesn't mean that PPC will be

2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:29:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: There's a few reports against 2.4 kernel that are fixed in 2.6 and are unlikely to get in 2.4 every (Examples: #146956 or #130217). How should we deal with them in the BTS? The real question here is to ask ourselves what is