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

Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-04T07:56:19Z

> >
> > > . Another
> > > advantage would be to benefit external projects and hardware producers
> > > writing open drivers, enlowering the effort in writing and mantaining
> > > a driver.
> >
> > there is an even better model for those: Get it merged into kernel.org!
> >
> >
> > There is an even bigger deal here: even if you're not ready to get
> > merged yet, staying on the same old version for 6 months is NOT going to
> > help you. In fact it's worse: it is 10x easier to deal with 6 small
> > steps of 1 month than to deal with 1 big step of 6 months.
> >
> >
> from the kernel.org point of view it does make sense but from users
> pov i think no. Users stuck with old drivers not actively mantained
> would benefit from this.

actually no. since that only buys them a few months at most, and then
you're entirely stuck again. And patching it up after 6 months is a lot
harder than doing smaller steps of 1 month, especially for less
experienced people.

> There are some open drivers wrote by hardware mantainers which will
> never get into kernel.org cause of code not following kernel style
> guides and so on.

which ones did you have in mind?