From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: James@superbug.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:11:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060120181124.847b44bc.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6769FDC09295B7E6078A5089@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com>
El Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:36:35 -0700,
Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> escribió:
> That's the nail on the head exactly. Why is this being done in an even
> numbered kernel? This represents an API change that has knock on well
> outside of the kernel, and should be done in development releases. Why is
> it LK is the only major project (that I know of) that does this? This is
> akin to apache changing the format of httpd.conf and saying in say 1.3.38
> and saying 'well we made the userland tools too.'
There's a Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt file. Is not that devfs
and other features were removed suddenly from one day to another. If external
developers don't care about maintaining code in (say) a 6 month timeframe
kernel developers can't do nothing. External developers are encouraged to
merge their code in the main tree anyway.
It's strange that you mention the devfs case. People wanted to remove
devfs one or maybe two years ago, and Linus and/or akpm decided to kept
it to give people time to migrate.
Please see the archives to understand why the people who maintains the
kernel and gets their ass kicked when a stable released has a bug decided
to set up this development model.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 15:17 Development tree, PLEASE? Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 15:31 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 15:59 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 16:07 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:34 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 17:04 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:35 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 17:06 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 17:31 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-20 20:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-20 16:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 17:14 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:43 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 20:56 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 21:06 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-20 23:00 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 23:17 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 23:33 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 23:55 ` Russell King
2006-01-21 0:05 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 0:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 23:27 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 23:52 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 0:03 ` Russell King
2006-01-21 1:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-20 20:25 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 22:05 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 22:54 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 16:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 16:48 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 16:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
[not found] ` <20060120172431.GE5873@stiffy.osknowledge.org>
2006-01-20 17:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 17:53 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 18:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 18:06 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-13 17:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 16:29 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-20 16:36 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 17:31 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-20 19:10 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 23:20 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-20 23:54 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:21 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-20 20:00 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 21:21 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 21:40 ` Doug McNaught
2006-01-20 22:09 ` Michael Loftis
2006-02-02 12:16 ` David Weinehall
2006-02-02 18:25 ` Michael Loftis
2006-02-02 20:10 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-02 22:10 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-02 22:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-03 1:29 ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-03 4:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-03 12:28 ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-03 16:04 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-02 22:31 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-02-03 5:08 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-02 22:15 ` David Weinehall
2006-02-02 22:47 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 20:10 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-20 20:20 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-20 21:48 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 22:14 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 9:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-21 14:52 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-21 17:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 21:50 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 9:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 16:53 ` Joe George
2006-01-20 17:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-20 17:33 ` Joe George
[not found] ` <20060120121116.62a8f0a6.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-20 17:11 ` sean
2006-01-20 17:56 ` Development tree, please? Michael Loftis
[not found] ` <20060120131120.338ebf17.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-20 18:11 ` sean
2006-01-20 18:43 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 17:11 ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2006-01-21 1:56 ` Development tree, PLEASE? Matthew Frost
2006-01-21 3:19 ` Matthew Frost
2006-01-21 7:22 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 7:38 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 21:56 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-01-21 22:18 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 22:40 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 22:47 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 22:51 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 8:57 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-22 9:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-01-22 16:09 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 22:59 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-21 22:49 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-21 23:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-22 9:03 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-22 17:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 21:30 ` Nix
2006-01-25 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 22:12 ` Nix
2006-01-26 8:44 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-26 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-26 21:44 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 17:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-22 17:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 11:28 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-21 18:09 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 17:08 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-21 0:36 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:16 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 19:27 ` Ben Collins
2006-01-20 22:04 ` Vincent Hanquez
2006-01-21 18:29 ` Johan Kullstam
2006-01-23 13:45 ` Vincent Hanquez
2006-01-24 15:35 ` Bob Copeland
2006-01-21 11:41 ` Ralf Baechle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-21 6:58 Michael Loftis
2006-03-14 13:57 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-14 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-16 20:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 20:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
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