On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox 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 de
ror 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
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Jon Smirl
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before
>> cutting 3.0.0! :-)
>
> So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0",
> not "3.0.0
case, it really would be "3.0",
> not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than
> the fourth one.
Could we set a goal of having 3.0 be the first release with a totally
cleaned up ARM arch? That would give everyone a
