Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262533AbVCCSHL (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:07:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262543AbVCCSDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:03:13 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43975 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262533AbVCCSCf (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:02:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:02:23 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jens Axboe , Chris Wright , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303180223.GQ5389@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> <20050303080459.GA29235@kroah.com> <4226CA7E.4090905@pobox.com> <20050303165533.GQ28536@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050303170336.GL19505@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 28 * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > Why should there be one? One of the things I like about this concept is > > that it's just a moving tree. There could be daily snapshots like the > > -bkX "releases" of Linus's tree, if there are changes from the day > > before. It means (hopefully) that no one will "wait for x.y.z.2 because > > that is really stable". > > Exactly. Th ewhole point of this tree is that there shouldn't be anything > questionable in it. All the patches are independent, and they are all > trivial and small. > > Which is not to say there couldn't be regressions even from trivial and > small patches, and yes, there will be an outcry when there is, but we're > talking minimizing the risk, not making it impossible. OK. I was aniticpating people's request for an official 2.6.x.y release (since I've already had that request a bunch). But as long as the snapshot can be easily identified in the unlikely case of a regression, then snapshot could be good enough. -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.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/