From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267231AbUGVU30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267232AbUGVU30 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:29:26 -0400 Received: from europa.pnl.gov ([130.20.248.195]:54475 "EHLO europa.pnl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267231AbUGVU3Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:29:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:28:27 -0700 From: Kevin Fox Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) In-reply-to: <20040722160112.177fc07f.akpm@osdl.org> To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <1090528107.10227.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2004 20:29:23.0140 (UTC) FILETIME=[930F3040:01C4702A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org How is this any different then the old dev model with very short release cycles? (Other then keeping a "2." prefixed forever) On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 16:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > my personal opinon is that this new development model isn't a good > > idea from the point of view of users: > > > > There's much worth in having a very stable kernel. Many people use for > > different reasons self-compiled ftp.kernel.org kernels. > > Well. We'll see. 2.6 is becoming stabler, despite the fact that we're > adding features. > > 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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/