Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Ben Collins
2005-12-03T18:18:50Z

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The current kernel development model is pretty good for people who
> always want to use or offer their costumers the maximum amount of the
> latest bugs^Wfeatures without having to resort on additional patches for
> them.
>
> Problems of the current development model from a user's point of view
> are:
> - many regressions in every new release
> - kernel updates often require updates for the kernel-related userspace
> (e.g. for udev or the pcmcia tools switch)
>
> One problem following from this is that people continue to use older
> kernels with known security holes because the amount of work for kernel
> upgrades is too high.

What you're suggesting sounds just like going back to the old style of
development where 2.<even>.x is stable, and 2.<odd>.x is development.
You might as well just suggest that after 2.6.16, we fork to 2.7.0, and
2.6.17+ will be stable increments like we always used to do.

You're just munging the version scheme :)

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