Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

Alan Cox
2006-09-21T08:50:19Z

Ar Mer, 2006-09-20 am 22:23 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds:
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Why would a shorter cycle be better? What are we trying to achieve?
>
> I don't think a shorter cycle is necessarily better, but I think we could
> try having a more "directed" cycle, and perhaps merge certain specific
> things rather than everything.

Works for me. We do need to keep pushing drivers each cycle (and we need
faster cycles just to keep up with the chipset people) but a situation
where people are told to keep those driver updates working with the old
core code would be fine (ie as 2.4 sometimes was) for some of the cycles
when they are not the goal.

Alan