Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261478AbVACPl0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:41:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261479AbVACPl0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:41:26 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:46747 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261478AbVACPlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:41:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:37:58 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Rik van Riel , William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050103153758.GY29332@holomorphy.com> References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <20050102203615.GL29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050102214211.GM29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102221534.GG4183@stusta.de> <20050103152953.GE2980@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050103152953.GE2980@stusta.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 24 On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:20:40AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: >> 2.2 before 2.2.20 also had this kind of problem, as did >> the 2.4 kernel before 2.4.20 or thereabouts. >> I'm pretty sure 2.6 is actually doing better than the >> early 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 kernels... On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:29:53PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > My personal impression was that even the 2.6.0-test kernels were much > better than the 2.4.0-test kernels. > But 2.6.20 will most likely still have the stability of the early > 2.6 kernels instead of a greatly increased stability as observed in > 2.2.20 and 2.4.20 . This is speculation; there is no reason not to expect the process to converge to as great of stability or greater stability than the 2.4-style process. I specuate that it will in fact do precisely that. -- wli - 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/