Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Alan Cox
2005-03-04T02:54:22Z

On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 03:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The point is that it's happening anyway. See Andres' -as tree which
> is the basis for the Debian vendor kernel. Getting that up to an
> official status as 2.6.x.y would be very nice (and having it on
> linux.bkbits.net)

IMHO it is nowhere near conservative enough (or at times complete
enough) to be a 2.6.x.y kernel. In some respects -ac is closer but it
also isn't as conservative as a real 2.6.x.y should be.

2.6.x.y needs several people to keep it tight and to ensure there is
always cover on a security fix.