From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem
To: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:33:58 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20021003223028.GB2221@kroah.com> from "Greg KH" at Oct 03, 2002 03:30:28 PM
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> > Hmmm, then for 3.0 I'd vote for fully working and proven stable:
> 
> Hm, how do you "prove" any of these are stable :)

Hmm, yeah, I see what you mean, but for me, proved stable is a couple of years of being in a major distribution, with people actually using it.

Now that major distributions no longer ship development kernels, (Slackware used to - I have slackware CDs with 1.3.x trees on them, for example), this is a less valid point.

> > * Bluetooth
> 
> Been there since 2.4

..and I'm sure the three people actually using it haven't found any bugs yet ;-)

> > * USB (2)
> 
> Present in 2.5 (and 2.4 now too)

..and yet there are still complaints that it doesn't work every day on the list.

> > * IEEE 1394
> 
> Been there since 2.4.

Still marked as experimental, though.  Not stable yet.

John.
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