Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-26T12:37:47Z

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:44:46AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> To my mind this just points out the need for a bug fix branch. e.g. a
> branch containing just bug/security fixes against the current stable
> kernel. It might also be worth keeping the branch active for the n-1
> stable kernel too.
>
> Ed
>
> PS. we could call this the Bug/Security or bs kernels.

The current kernel version number scheme already has a provision for
a security/bug fix branch: 2.6.9.1, 2.6.9.2, etc.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>