From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [kbuild-devel] kbuild-2.5 schedule
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 07:00:09 -0700

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ESR and I presented kbuild-2.5 at the Linux 2.5 development kernel
summit.  It went over pretty well, most people want the new features,
especially separate source and object trees.  Linus was a bit
disgruntled (actually he went ballistic) because he thought that this
work had come out of nowhere, especially CML2.  He calmed down when we
explained that it had been discussed on kbuild for over a year and
nobody wanted to continue with CML1 or the old style makefiles.

Linus will not accept this patch into 2.4, even though it changes no
files.  His argument is that having it in 2.4 will mean extra reports
for him, which is fair enough.  So we have to maintain a separate
kbuild-2.5 patch against 2.4 for a while.  Linus agreed that 2.5 will
use kbuild 2.5, the tentative order is

  Patch kbuild 2.5 against 2.4 kernels, supporting both CML1 and CML2.
  Push everybody to test using kbuild 2.5 and CML2.
  Linus clones 2.4.x as 2.5.0, still on old kbuild.
  2.5.1 has some outstanding network fixes, still on old kbuild.
  2.5.2 converts to kbuild 2.5, CML2 only.

All subject to change, of course.  No date for kernel 2.5.

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