On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:07 -0400, jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a > big > > version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all > in > > git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some > crawly > > horror back from the dead. > > 2.8 could mark the beginning of the great cleanup > --- work out the details of what needs to be cleaned and set a goal > --- remove old buses/driver, switch to device tree, graphics, 32/64 > merges, etc > 3.0 would mark its completion Here it go my opinion, Many people ask for beginning of 2.7 kernel series which will end on 2.8, by old numeration. Kernel 2.8 will mainly a major clean up, of support of the very old hardware, like "math co-processor" at only exist in 386 and before Pentium. If some one want put Linux on this very old hardware should use kernel 2.2. However a new numeration of kernel is independent of this, and I agree with new numeration of kernel on drop a number. Last but not least, I would like to see marked a hiper stable kernel , which will be used by Debian guys. Debian guys tend to stop in a kernel which is not the best one, so let we choose for them what is the stable of stables . Best regards, -- SÃrgio M. B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
