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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:24:11 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cgh49b$hj2$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 805tv1-ec2.ln1@tux.abusar.org

Followup to:  <805tv1-ec2.ln1@tux.abusar.org>
By author:    fraga@abusar.org ( =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 	Ok, I understand the problem. But isn't it possible to avoid
> releasing some 2.6.8.x version after 2.6.9? I mean, I'm not
> understanding why this could happen.
> 
> 	Ps: sorry if this question is silly, but I didn't get the point why
> 2.6.8.2 could be released after 2.6.9.
> 

Because people don't want to upgrade to 2.6.9 for some reason (too big
of a change.)  Kind of like why we're still supporting 2.4, 2.2 and
(to some degree) 2.0.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-24  7:49 Linux 2.6.9-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2004-08-24 16:40 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-24 16:41 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc1 Pierre Ossman
2004-08-24 16:46   ` Russell King
2004-08-24 16:59     ` Pierre Ossman
2004-08-24 17:50 ` Alexander Gran
2004-08-24 18:42 ` Matt Mackall
2004-08-24 19:23   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-24 19:38     ` Chris Meadors
2004-08-24 19:54     ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-24 20:13       ` Josh Boyer
2004-08-24 20:25         ` Jesper Juhl
2004-08-24 20:07     ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-24 20:32     ` Matt Mackall
2004-08-24 21:22     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-24 22:55       ` Dave Hansen
2004-08-24 22:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-24 23:46     `  Dâniel Fraga
2004-08-25  0:11       ` Daniel Andersen
2004-08-25  1:01         `  Dâniel Fraga
2004-08-25  4:24           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-08-25 20:36           ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-25  0:25       ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2004-08-25  1:11         `  Dâniel Fraga
2004-08-25  9:13     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-25 20:18     ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-24 18:54 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-08-24 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-24 21:58   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-25 14:45 ` Chris Friesen
2004-08-25 16:12 ` Matthias Andree
2004-08-25 18:52 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-25 20:32   ` Harald Welte
2004-08-25 21:35     ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-08-25 23:48       ` Harald Welte
2004-08-25 23:44     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-26  3:14       ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-26  8:02       ` Harald Welte
2004-08-26  5:07 ` Mark Lord
     [not found]   ` <20040825231407.058b3ea6.davem@redhat.com>
2004-08-26  6:15     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-31 17:34 ` 2.6.9-rc1: missing netfilter help texts Adrian Bunk
2004-08-31 18:40   ` [netfilter-core] " Harald Welte
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-25  0:31 Linux 2.6.9-rc1 Sartorelli, Kevin
2004-08-25  1:05 ` Daniel Andersen
2004-08-25  1:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 14:52     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-25 21:14       ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-26  8:09         ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-26  8:35           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 12:45           ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-27 21:30             ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-25 20:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-25 22:20 David Mansfield

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