mtd/html index.html,1.38,1.39

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	index.html 
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Add a section about kernel versions

Index: index.html
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mtd/html/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.38
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.38 -r1.39
--- index.html	24 Jul 2004 17:38:43 -0000	1.38
+++ index.html	5 Oct 2004 19:03:14 -0000	1.39
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@
 
     <UL>
     <LI><P>There is a mailing list for discussion of MTD development: <B><I><A
-    HREF="http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html">linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org</A></i></B>. Please
-    do not post to the mailing list without first reading my <A
+    HREF="http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html">linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org</A></i></B>. 
+    Please do not post to the mailing list without first reading my <A
     HREF="http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html">notes on
-    etiquette</A>. Full archives are available
+    etiquette</A>.</P> 
+    <P>Please read also the section about <A href="#kernelversions">kernel versions below</A></P>
+    <P>Full archives are available
       at <A HREF="http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/">
 	http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/</A>. 
       </P><P>
@@ -94,7 +96,9 @@
 	/sbin/service network restart
     </PRE>
     <P>If you have a firewall you need to make it let IP protocol #41
-    (IPv6 in IPv4) in and out. Other distributions and other operating systems also support <A HREF="http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/6to4.html">6to4</A>. Even <A HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/docs/6to4.htm">Windows</A> can do it.</P>
+    (IPv6 in IPv4) in and out. Other distributions and other operating systems also support 
+    <A HREF="http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/6to4.html">6to4</A>. 
+    Even <A HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/docs/6to4.htm">Windows</A> can do it.</P>
 
     <P>Assuming you have IPv6, access to CVS is
       done over SSH rather than pserver:</P>
@@ -111,6 +115,21 @@
 	ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/mtd/cvs/</A>
     </P>
     <HR size=2>
+    <H2><a name="kernelversions">Kernel versions</a></H2>
+    <p>The MTD code in the linux kernel is updated from MTD CVS in kernel version <B>2.6.newest only</B>.</P>
+    <p>The MTD CVS works most at the moment with kernels from the 2.4 series too. The MTD code which is available 
+    in the 2.4 series kernel source is maintainence only and will not be updated, except for bux fixes. 
+    If you need functionality from the current MTD code for your 2.4 kernel and for whatever reason, you can 
+    use the CVS code and patch your kernel yourself. You need at least kernel version 2.4.26. 
+    Kernels below 2.4.26 are considered as outdated and obsolete.</p>
+    <p>The MTD community is neither able nor interested to provide support for ancient kernels. Either move yourself 
+    and update to a recent kernel or get support from your kernel vendor. Do not ask on the mailinglist for help
+    with such problems. You are either ignored or you get a pointer to this text. Please save the bandwidth and
+    our time to sort out such questions.</p>
+    <p>The MTD support for 2.4 will be moved to a maintainence only mode in the near future. This will
+    relieve us from a lot of compatibility crap and lets us concentrate on the further development in
+    the 2.6 series.</p>
+    <HR size=2>
     <H2>Installation</H2>
     <P>Check out sources from CVS or download a snapshot and untar it. Change to the
        top directory and read INSTALL. Change to subdir patches. There you find a script <B>patchin.sh</B>.