On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:07 -0400, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox [off-list ref]
wrote:

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Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a

big

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version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all

in

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git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some

crawly

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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, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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