Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262195AbTKLPIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:08:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262186AbTKLPHr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:07:47 -0500 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:15807 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262195AbTKLPHi (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:07:38 -0500 To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development References: <3FAE9026.60500@stesmi.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 12 Nov 2003 16:07:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3FAE9026.60500@stesmi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 10 Stefan Smietanowski writes: > And then someone comes along and says that feature X isn't working in > some version. He then reports that "it worked in a.b.c but then someone > broke it for a.b.c+1 pre 1. Then you have to tell that person that > a.b.c+1 pre 1 isn't newer than a.b.c. Messy. Very messy. I think people using testing/ kernels are able to learn such things. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/