Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261553AbUJ0Avc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:51:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261555AbUJ0Avc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:51:32 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi ([130.232.202.172]:5051 "EHLO smtp-out-02.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261553AbUJ0AvS (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:51:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:51:09 +0300 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process In-reply-to: <4d8e3fd304102613447c0156b2@mail.gmail.com> To: Paolo Ciarrocchi Cc: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , "Randy.Dunlap" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel Message-id: <200410270351.09581.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200410260644.47307.edt@aei.ca> <20041026203644.GD2307@redhat.com> <4d8e3fd304102613447c0156b2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1353 Lines: 27 On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:44, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename > it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ? > Do you see what I mean ? "Final users" are those like me, who so far are quite satisfied[1] with the distribution kernel. Advanced users will be aware of the existence of other than kernel.org versions of the kernel, and will hopefully be able to pick one suited to their particular fuzzy feelings. During 2.4 development (IIRC) it was somewhat fairly generic knowledge amongst those who had progressed marginally beyond booting linux, to compiling some kernel from sources, what -ac postfix meant. Why that sort of community knowledge osmosis wouldn't be possible or active today also, I do not know. Perhaps people are just in general afraid of change. [1] As in, the Fedora Core 2 kernel did not immediately give me such awful performance that it made me get a kernel.org kernel to get back the magnitude or so performance loss of the typical Redhat9 kernel. Benchmarks purely subjective of course, sorry. :-/ - 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/