[ale] make modules

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Bao C. Ha wrote:

> I have always thought that the -ac kernels are to protest
> Linus' decision to use Adrian's VM in a supposedly stable
> kernel series, instead of continuing fixing Rik's VM.

Naw.  That was just some Byte columnist's spin on things ;-)

Alan did -ac kernels for both 2.2 and 2.4.  The idea is that they add 
features which Linus won't (2.4 ac adds 32-bit quota support, for example), 
and they're more debugged than the Linus kernels.

As for the VM business, take a look in
<ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/alan/linux-2.4/>.  You'll see that
there are -ac patches for 2.4 kernels long before Linus switched to Andrea
Arcangeli's VM (around 2.4.9), and Alan no longer maintains an -ac with Rik
van Riel's VM because he agrees with Linus that the new one works better.

later,
chris


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