Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261320AbVCCBTp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:19:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261370AbVCCBPy (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:15:54 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35287 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261351AbVCCBL7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:11:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:11:51 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Garzik , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "David S. Miller" , Jeff Garzik , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 22 On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:58:30PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > The problem is people don't test until 2.6.whatever-final goes out. > Nothing will change that. > > And the day Linus releases we always get a pile of "missing MODULE_EXPORT()" > type bug reports that are one liner fixes. Those fixes will not be seen by > users until the next 2.6.x rev comes out and right now that takes months > which is rediculious for such simple fixes. So what was broken with the 2.6.8.1 type of 'hotfix kernel' release ? Apart from needing to do the 2.6.8.1 -> 2.6.8 -> 2.6.9 transition which confused some people, it seemed to be easily understood for what it was, and solved the same problem as this new proposal. Dave - 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/