Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261462AbVCCDPf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:15:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261454AbVCCDPR (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:15:17 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55215 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261463AbVCCDLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:11:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 03:10:48 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Neil Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303031047.GA30423@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Neil Brown , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, 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> <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> <20050302172049.72a0037f.akpm@osdl.org> <16934.28536.137910.735002@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16934.28536.137910.735002@cse.unsw.edu.au> 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: 682 Lines: 15 On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:59:20PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > I think there is a case for the "community" providing the most > "stable" kernel that it (reasonably) can without depending on > "distributions" to do that. The point is that it's happening anyway. See Andres' -as tree which is the basis for the Debian vendor kernel. Getting that up to an official status as 2.6.x.y would be very nice (and having it on linux.bkbits.net) - 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/