From:	 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	 landley@trommello.org
Subject: Re: Whining about 2.5 (was Re: [PATCH] Re: bug? in using generic read/write functions to read/write block devices in 2.4.11-pre2)
Date:	 Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:02:38 +0100 (BST)
Cc:	 viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro),
	 hch@ns.caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig),
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)

> question, I know), which VM will it use?  I'm guessing Alan will still 
> inherit the "stable" codebase, but the -ac and -linus trees are breaking new 
> ground on divergence here.  Which tree becomes 2.4 once Alan inherits it?  
> (Is this part of what's holding up 2.5?)

For the moment I plan to maintain the 2.4.*-ac tree. I don't know what will
happen about 2.4 longer term - that is a Linus question. Looking at
historical VM history I don't think we will eliminate enough "2.4.10+ oops
on my box" and "on this load the VM sucks" cases from 2.4.10 to fairly 
review Andrea's VM until Linus has done another 5 or 6 releases and the VM
has been tuned, bugs removed and other oops cases proven not to be vm
triggered.

Alan
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