Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261426AbVCCCje (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:39:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261400AbVCCCe7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:34:59 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:208 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261418AbVCCCcl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:32:41 -0500 Message-ID: <42267737.4070702@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:32:23 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 20 I also note that part of the problem that motivates the even/odd thing is a tacit acknowledgement that people only _really_ test the official releases. Which IMHO backs up my opinion that we simply need more frequent releases. Part of this is a scalability problem. Linux probably has more changes flowing into it than any other OS kernel on the planet. We must deal with an ever-increasing number of changesets in a way that produces a usable kernel for our users. 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/