> testing and fixing 2.2 support was a real pain at the end of the 2.7.0 > cycle. It also adds a lot of cruft in the drivers and adds to patch > misery. What do you think of removing 2.2 support and making 2.7.0 the > last 2.2-compatible release? For reference, we dropped 2.0 support in > release 2.5.0, March 2000. mds Though dropping support is something serious and I don't especially like it, I think you're right. However, I'd prefer that we drop support only on a .0 release. That way, there's still a possibility to release a fix if something appears to go wrong. So, we'd better release the next version as 2.8.0 if it doesn't support kernels 2.2, which will let us have a 2.7.1 someday if the 2.7.0 release is to be known has having any serious problem. Any objection? -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
