From:	 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	 davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre5
Date:	 Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:09:12 +0000 (GMT)
Cc:	 alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	 marcelo@conectiva.com.br (Marcelo Tosatti),
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (lkml),
	 torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)

> > Actually that one is  various Intel people not me 8)
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to see such things proven right in 2.5 first ?

o	2.5 isnt going to be usable for that kind of thing in the near future
o	There is no code that is "new" for normal paths (in fact Marcelo
	wanted a change for the only "definitely harmless" one there was)
> 
> Random things like this still appearing in 2.4 that haven't shown
> up in 2.5 yet is a little disturbing. Ok its small, and there'll be

It isnt viable to do driver work or small test critical work in 2.5 yet. The
same happened in 2.2/2.3 so I'm not too worried
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