Hacking modversions

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Thu Mar 3 14:11:31 UTC 2005


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:51:07 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> The rebasing to new releases isn't about adding the new features.
> It's done to lower maintainence overhead. Supporting 3 releases at the same
> time becomes a lot easier when 2 of them share the same kernel (and one is
> only a point release away).

OK then, this answers all my original questions. Thankyou.
 
> If something got removed without a viable alternative, then that's
> a regression that should be reported. Examples ?

I was thinking of the 4G/4G VM patch, but I guess that's not really a
feature.

thanks -mike




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