From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267274AbUGVU7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:59:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267272AbUGVU7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:59:24 -0400 Received: from wblv-254-37.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.254.37]:43194 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267274AbUGVU6z (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:58:55 -0400 Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , corbet@lwn.net, Linux Kernel Mailing Lists In-Reply-To: <20040722160112.177fc07f.akpm@osdl.org> References: <40FEEEBC.7080104@quark.didntduck.org> <20040721231123.13423.qmail@lwn.net> <20040721235228.GZ14733@fs.tum.de> <20040722025539.5d35c4cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040722193337.GE19329@fs.tum.de> <20040722160112.177fc07f.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LiEIF6bmYbUSNwZxo/iI" Message-Id: <1090530100.10205.40.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:01:41 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-LiEIF6bmYbUSNwZxo/iI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > my personal opinon is that this new development model isn't a good=20 > > idea from the point of view of users: > >=20 > > There's much worth in having a very stable kernel. Many people use for=20 > > different reasons self-compiled ftp.kernel.org kernels.=20 >=20 > Well. We'll see. 2.6 is becoming stabler, despite the fact that we're > adding features. >=20 > I wouldn't be averse to releasing a 2.6.20.1 which is purely stability > fixes against 2.6.20 if there is demand for it. Anyone who really cares > about stability of kernel.org kernels won't be deploying 2.6.20 within a > few weeks of its release anyway, so by the time they doodle over to > kernel.org they'll find 2.6.20.2 or whatever. I wont recommend this, as it screws with some (most?) things trying to detect kernel version running from uname =3D) --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-LiEIF6bmYbUSNwZxo/iI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBACs0qburzKaJYLYRAotUAJsF+TXByQeXZg190V4TYyn+xoecMgCcC2EB ZfqH7SnxwzQxzBA8UFdS1kY= =Y1pC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LiEIF6bmYbUSNwZxo/iI--