On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:07 -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk 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,