On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Doug wrote:
> "Jan B. Koum" wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:58:09PM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard"
> > <j...@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote:
> > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html
>
> > >From the article:
> >
> > "Linux 2.4 also includes a completely rewritten networking layer."
> >
> > Great. After a few years from now when they get all the bugs out, they
> > will be right back to the quality of early 4.4BSD quality ;)
> >
> > However, the SMP stuff they are working on is something we need IMHO.
>
> Agreed on both counts. I also like the idea of shorter turnover time
> between major branches. We've already got a pretty considerable amount of
> stuff that can't be ported back to -Stable without major headaches. It's
> not always easy to know exactly where to draw the line, but I think that
> the move from 3->4 should probably take less time than the move from 2->3
> did.
Aye, and it shall. The 3.X branch should be the -STABLE branch for only
about a bit more than a year total, IIRC :) But 4.0 should also include
things that aren't even here yet, like pccard rewrites and the redone
VFS, maybe a rewrite of ipfw if we can agree on that, the IPv6 stacks
being merged in, PAO changes being accepted into the main branch (at
least some of them), finer-grained SMP (probably per-subsystem)...
The turnaround time will be less, but we'll still have a LOT of great
new things :)
>
> Doug
>
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