Idea to LinuxIOS

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 20:40 +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
>> At earlier days usb8xxx are outside the kernel and have to say
>>
>> depmod -a
>>
>> after building new kernel every time, in which, annoying much.
>>
>> Now , it was good to see that libertas/usb8xxx.ko will be made
>> automatically in compiling new kernel.
>>
>> But in my last test if say y to usb8xxx.ko instead of making it as module
>> will crash the OLPC at boot time.
>>
>> IMO: we should make usb8xxx to work under kernel 2.4 and in wider
>> environment.
>
> Good God!  Why would you want to backport any OLPC kernel module to 2.4?
> I'm fairly certain you'd be maintaining it outside the normal circles,
> because I doubt that Marcelo would be taking 2.4 patches to libertas
> git; I'd certainly recommend against taking them.  2.4 is a dead-end,
> and not just for OLPC...
>
> Dan

Going to kernel 2.4 is not backward but an alternative.
I like feature to cat /proc/pci to know hardwares.
One good thing on 2.4 is fast burning CD using ide-scsi
While 2.6 can damage the CD-RW.

When I burn CD I always reboot to 2.4 every time.
We can live happily with all s/w w/o need to discriminate them.

At this moment 2.4 still active and realease new versions everyday.
The number 2.6 did not means it was newer version.

Regards,
supat