Re: 2.4.27-12 for Sid
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:08:24PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 28 November 2005 10:05, Sven Luther wrote:
> > ... for a kernel which is aimed at
> > going away before the etch release anyway...
>
> I don't think this is true (for debian as a whole). Sorry. Removing 2.4 is not
> a etch release goal as defined by the release managers.
Well, this is indeed the aim of the kernel team, and is indeed the thinking of
Simon Horman, told repeteadly on irc and maybe onlist, but i guess you will
prefer that he confirms this.
Now, if additional external folk has time to invest in newer 2.4.x kernels,
the more power for them, but the aim is indeed to preferably get those drivers
and subarch-ports ported before the etch release.
> And it's also neither necessary nor particular useful as 2.6 still lacks some
> features 2.4 has: some hardware is only supported in 2.4, some firewall
> related features are only in 2.4 (atm). Maybe there is even more...
If they can't find the effort to get the support done in 2.6 by now (2.6 has
been out since 2/3 years), i doubt the support is very serious in the first
place.
> Joeyh wrote:
> > > like it might be less work to follow upstream since it's limited to
> > > security fixes, serious bug fixes, and driver backports, assuming
> > > merging with it isn't too much work.
>
> Ack. I've made up my mind and decided that I'l do (or try to do :-P) the work
> needed for bringing 2.4.32 in debian. Help is certainly welcome.
Cool. But as said, it needs to be done in the common kernel infrastructure, as
for linux-2.4, but you know that already. I will contribute powerpc/nubus
support there, as they are in the not-yet-supported-in-2.6 category, but then
i doubt the patches will apply cleanly without work to anything beyond 2.4.27
anyway, so ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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