Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261477AbVACPep (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:34:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261478AbVACPep (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:34:45 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:35594 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261477AbVACPem (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:34:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:34:38 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050103153438.GF2980@stusta.de> References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <20050102203615.GL29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1631 Lines: 41 On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > >You change some stuff. The bad mistakes are discovered very soon. > >Some subtler things or some things that occur only in special > >configurations or under special conditions or just with > >very low probability may not be noticed until much later. > > Some of these subtle bugs are only discovered a year > after the distribution with some particular kernel has > been deployed - at which point the kernel has moved on > so far that the fix the distro does might no longer > apply (even in concept) to the upstream kernel... > > This is especially true when you are talking about really > big database servers and bugs that take weeks or months > to trigger. If at this time 2.8 was already released, the 2.8 kernel available at this time will be roughly what 2.6 would have been under the current development model, and 2.6 will be a rock stable kernel. If it was possible to get the 2.7 cycle pretty short, this would give the advantages of the old development model without most of its' disadvantages. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/