Adam Sampson <[email protected]> said:
> L A Walsh <[email protected]> writes:
> > If you have a better way of creating a stable series of kernels
> > coming off kernel.org, I'm not attached to any specific method of
> > "how".
> One option would be a "Linux Legacy" project, similar to the Fedora
> Legacy project that backports updates to old Red Hat/Fedora Core
> releases: a central service that'd collect bug fixes for released
> kernels that distributors could then base their kernels on. That way,
> we'd get the stability advantages of vendor kernels without needing to
> repeat the effort for each distribution.
Didn't happen with 2.0, 2.2, or 2.4. I'd guess it won't happen for 2.6
either.
> Maybe some of the distribution vendors might be interested in setting
> up something like this?
I have seen absolutely no interest from distributions in leaving the
current 2.6 development model.
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