Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Greg KH
2005-03-02T23:30:04Z

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:58:46PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> This could be improved: _All_ new features have to go through -mm first
> for a period (of whatever length) / one cycle. 2.6.x only directly picks
> up "obvious" bugfixes, and a select set of features which have ripened
> in -mm. 2.6.x-pre releases would then basically "only" clean up
> integration bugs.

This is the way things work today already. The only exception being the
networking code, but hey, networking's always been special :)

thanks,

greg k-h