Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262455AbVAJUoy (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:44:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262520AbVAJUod (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:44:33 -0500 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:4077 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262455AbVAJUmo (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:42:44 -0500 Message-ID: <41E2EA84.2010507@gadugi.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:50:12 -0700 From: jmerkey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Adam Sampson , L A Walsh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Reviving the concept of a stable series References: <200501031424.j03EOV2t029019@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <41E07711.3040008@tlinx.org> <1105383229.12028.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1105383229.12028.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 18 Alan Cox wrote: >It would be essentially unmanageable unless you picked only one specific >kernel and configuration set to support. Needless to say you won't find >vendors even ship the same kernel. > >Nor for that matter would a few >backports magically give you stability. < ---------- So True. Jeff > > - 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/