From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre5 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:38:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > - Pentium IV Hyperthreading support (Alan Cox) > 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 ? 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 more 2.4pre's to get it right if anything is wrong with it, but the whole forward-porting features thing just seems so... backwards. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/