Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261271AbVCCBXp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:23:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261295AbVCCBXe (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:23:34 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:49804 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261271AbVCCBVX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:21:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:20:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Jones Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-Id: <20050302172049.72a0037f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 19 Dave Jones wrote: > > So what was broken with the 2.6.8.1 type of 'hotfix kernel' release ? That's an alternative, of course. But that _is_ a branch, and does need active forward- and (mainly) backward-porting work. There's nothing wrong with it per-se, but it becomes a "stabilised version of the kernel.org tree" or even a "production version of the kernel.org tree". In other words it's somewhere on the line between the mainline kernel.org tree and a distribution. How far along that line should it be positioned? - 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/