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

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-12-03T20:59:57Z

On 2005-12-03T14:56:08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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)

Your problem statement is correct, but you're fixing the symptoms, not
the cause.

What we need is an easier way for users to pull in kernel updates with
the matching kernel-related user-space.

This is provided, though with some lag, by Fedora, openSUSE, Debian
testing, dare I say gentoo and others.

The right way to address this is to work with the distribution of your
choice to make these updates available faster.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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