Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261341AbVAGLR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:17:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVAGLR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:17:56 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:5563 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261341AbVAGLRw (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:17:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:17:51 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nicolas Mailhot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@list.debian.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050107111751.GA6765@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Nicolas Mailhot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@list.debian.org References: <1105096053.5444.11.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> <20050107111508.GA6667@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050107111508.GA6667@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 32 [wrong cc list last time] On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:15:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:07:33PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Since 2.6 is turning into a continuous release, how about just taking > > the last 2.6 release every six months and backport security fixes to it > > for the next half year ? > > Half a year is far too long because hardware is changing to fast for that. > Three month sounds like a much better idea. > > The real problem is that this is a really time-consuming issue, so > there need to be people actually commited to doing this kind of thing. > > Andres Salomon from the Debian Kernel maintaince team has been thinking > about such a bugfix tree, but he's worried about having the time to > actually get the work done - and we know what we're talking about as > we're trying to keep a properly fixed 2.6.8 tree for Debian sarge. > > - > 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/ ---end quoted text--- - 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/