mtd/html source.xml,1.8,1.9

[David Woodhouse]

Update of /home/cvs/mtd/html
In directory phoenix.infradead.org:/tmp/cvs-serv31439

Modified Files:
	source.xml 
Log Message:
be more explicit about the 2.4 snapshot and support

Index: source.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mtd/html/source.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.8 -r1.9
--- source.xml	7 Jul 2005 15:33:43 -0000	1.8
+++ source.xml	1 Aug 2005 13:45:03 -0000	1.9
@@ -55,6 +55,18 @@
 <i>cd mtd</i><br />
 <i>cvs update -dP -D 2005-03-04</i><br />
 </p>
+<P><B>NOTE:</B> That is just a snapshot. It isn't a release version
+or a branch; it's known to be broken in ways which will corrupt data,
+and we don't care. The bugs got fixed later but the patches will never
+be backported. The date quoted just happens to be the date at which the
+unstable development tree was last observed to compile for the ancient
+2.4 kernel. You should not use it, and you should not expect it to
+work.</P>
+<P>If you are using the ancient 2.4 kernel, that's probably
+because you're interested in stabliity -- it is old and long-tested
+code. If that's what you want, then you should use the original JFFS2
+code which is part of the 2.4 kernel. It's old and slow and doesn't
+support NAND flash, but it <em>is</em> stable, and is maintained.</P>
 <p>The MTD community is neither able nor interested to provide support for ancient kernels. 
 Move yourself and update to a recent kernel. If you use a vendor supplied kernel, 
 please  get support from your kernel vendor.  Do not ask on the mailinglist for help with