On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:29:24PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > Never, probably.
I wouldn't be that pessismistic. As you noted, some of the changes certainly won't go upstream...but I expect the non-parisc diff to shrink as changes from 2.6 are backported into 2.4 or or no longer need changes like the driver updates I added. > Most of the kernel developers are concentrated on 2.6. > There's not a lot of interest to merge 2.4 stuff upstream. If Martin is interested, he should do the work to generate and test the patches on ia32. Speaking only for myself, it's not a priority since the CVS tree "Works For Me" (tm). > Besides, > there are some hacks in the pa tree that cannot be merged upstream > anyway. I agree...unless someone puts alot of effort into resolving those issues. grant
