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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:26:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Russell King wrote:
...
> Rubbish.
>
> Think about what you've just said.  Patch level version changes are
> things like 2.5.43 to 2.5.44 or 2.4.19 to 2.4.20.
>
> You are saying that we shouldn't change any interfaces between (eg)
> 2.5.43 and 2.5.44, but we should change every interface we want to
> change between 2.4.15 and 2.5.0.
	Put very simply yes .  x.odd-number.y IS for DEVELOPEMENT ,
	x.even-number.y IS for Stability .
	If people can not understand that I feel sorry for them .
		JimL
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