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

Adrian Bunk
2005-12-05T23:25:23Z

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:30:09PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> Actually I would be happy with the stability of this series if people
> would stop trying to take working features OUT of it! That's the largest
> problem I see, not that the existing features are unstable, and we have
> a -stable branch to cover that, but that I can't count on features I use
> and which are required for useful work.
>
> If a firm policy of not removing supported features until 2.7 was
> adopted I don't see a problem. The bulk of the instability (not
> absolutely all, I grant), is in new features, or features which aren't
> working all that well in any case. But if existing features suddenly
> drop out from beneath the user, then you will find people doing what you
> mentioned, staying with old kernels with holes rather than moving to
> kernels which are simply no longer functional.

You are thinking in terms of the old development model.

This is not an option since the current development model says that
there might never be a 2.7 kernel series.

We might like it or not, but this is the current development model and
Andrew and Linus don't seem to want to change it.

cu
Adrian

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