[MPlayer-dev-eng] mga_vid for 2.6 kernels storage in cvs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:10PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 21:19, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:45 -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > imo it's fine to support only stable kernel series (2.4.x) and latest
> > > unstable (2.6 is definitely an _unstable_ kernel series, despite the
> > > name).
> > 
> > Why do you say that?  2.6 is the stable kernel series, and the -mm
> > branch is the development kernel.  2.4 is in maintenance mode.
> 
> Incompatible changes are being introduced constantly in 2.6.x line,
> that's why I consider it unstable, too.

exactly. it's also full of bugs...and some important things that used
to work are still broken. matroxfb was broken at least thru 2.6.8 or
so, and i have no idea whether it even works now...if so it still
doesn't have all the features it used to.

rich