KernelTrap: Maintaining the 2.4 Kernel

“Willy Tarreau replaced Marcelo Tosatti as the 2.4 stable Linux
kernel maintainer in August of 2006. In response to a series of
compilation fixes sent to the lkml by Mariusz Kozlowski, Willy
suggested that all patches would be postponed until 2.4.34 is
released. He suggested that in the interum the appropriate
subsystem maintainers should be contacted to determine whether or
not each of the patches should be merged, ‘we would merge the
accepted patches and those without any reply which we consider
relevant early in the 35-pre cycle so that people have some time to
inform us about the potential conflicts they encounter…'”

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