Free Software Linux

Adrian Bunk posted a patch to make Linux IO schedulers a non-modular option, which would require one IO scheduler to be selected at compile time. He suggested, "there isn't any big advantage and doesn't seem to be much usage of modular schedulers." He added that removing the option to make IO schedulers modular would save 2kB on each kernel image. Jens Axboe did not like the patch, "big nack, I use it all the time for testing. Just because you don't happen to use it is not a reason to remove it." When Adrian noted that no distros seemed to be making IO schedulers available as modules, Jens suggested that this was a mistake and quipped, "it's been a long time since I considered a distro .config a benchmark/guideline of any sort."

"For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12 release would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then, I've received a number of other patches that would be nice to have in the .22.y tree," explained Greg KH. He continued: "So, for a while, I'll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new releases every once in a while as they accumulate. I do this, for no other than the selfish reason that I use it every day on my openSuSE 10.3 boxes as that is the kernel base that release is on :)"