Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262816AbUJ1H5x (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:57:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262818AbUJ1H5x (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:57:53 -0400 Received: from [213.188.213.77] ([213.188.213.77]:17304 "EHLO server1.navynet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262816AbUJ1H5p (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:57:45 -0400 From: "Massimo Cetra" To: , "'John Richard Moser'" Cc: "'Marcos D. Marado Torres'" , "'Ed Tomlinson'" , "'Chuck Ebbert'" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "'Bill Davidsen'" , "'William Lee Irwin III'" , "'linux-kernel'" Subject: RE: My thoughts on the "new development model" Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:57:34 +0200 Message-ID: <004601c4bcc3$ca7eaac0$e60a0a0a@guendalin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1413 Lines: 44 > There seems to be a lot of strange notions on this concept of > 'stable'. The only thing that makes a kernel 'stable' is > time. Not endless bugfixes. Just time. The idea of stable > software is software that not going to give you any suprises, > software that you can trust. > > That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, > there's no such thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly > acceptable in a production environment as long as they're not > impacting. (The linux kernel is a very large piece of work. > Few installations would use even 20% of the total kernel > functionality). > Yes, perfectly right. You would agree (for example) that this: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Danny Brow wrote: > > Ok, thank you for the feedback, glad you fixed your problem. > Now I guess we just need for someone to find out why > LEGACY_PTYS breaks > ssh (and other apps?) with kernels >= 2.6.9, but I'm afraid > thats beyond Does not reflect the behaviour of a stable kernel. Yes, of course, there's the workaround. But I don't think this bug is not impacting. I repeat once again. To me something is going in the wrong direction. Massimo - 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/