Re: New (now current development process)

Andreas Kleen
2005-11-02T14:44:15Z

Am Mo 31.10.2005 05:52 schrieb Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:

> On Sunday 30 October 2005 18:45, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The problem is that -mm* contains typically so many more or less
> > broken changes that any extensive work on there is futile
> > because you never know whose bugs you're debugging
> > (and if the patch that is broken will even make it anywhere)
> >
> > In short mainline is frozen too long and -mm* is too unstable.
>
> Are you implying that if mainline wasn't frozen so much, it would
> still be
> more stable than -mm?

Yes. Historically 2.<odd> kernels were like this.

-Andi