Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:35:52AM -0500, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:31:13PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Good idea.  This is especially important because of the critical drivers 
> > that are not yet ported to 2.6 kernel... for example dpt_i2o SCSI RAID.
> 
> There are several months for them to be ported.  If no one cares enough
> to port them, well, that's an indicator that they aren't critical.

Or that only two people on the planet have the docs.

> Really, trying to do backup kernels is a bad idea.  It messes up
> testing, it duplicates lots of effort, it wastes space.

Its an inevitability for FC2, its simply a question of whether Red Hat
does it, or everyone uses an alternative boot disk. Remember most of the
boxes 2.6 doesn't work  on will be total install blockers, so instead
of pushing 2.6 you'll simply destroy fedora.