Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262682AbVCCWt2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:49:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262690AbVCCWQY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:16:24 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:29962 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262678AbVCCWPM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:15:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:15:03 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, torvalds@osdl.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303221503.GS4608@stusta.de> References: <20050303081958.GA29524@kroah.com> <4226CCFE.2090506@pobox.com> <20050303090106.GC29955@kroah.com> <4226D655.2040902@pobox.com> <20050303021506.137ce222.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303170759.GA17742@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <20050303193358.GA29371@redhat.com> <20050303203808.GA10408@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <42278194.7020409@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42278194.7020409@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2248 Lines: 59 On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > >I've watched you periodically announce "hey, I'm doing an update for > >FC3/FC2, please test" on the mail list, and a handful of people go test. > >If we could convince many of the the less risk-averse but lazy users to > >grab kernels automatically from updates/3/testing/ or updates/3/unstable/ > >as part of "yum update", and have a way to manage the plethora of (even > >daily) kernel updates by removing old unused kernels, then we'd only > >have to convince them *once* to set up their YUM repos, and then get them > >to poweroff or reboot [or use a Xen domain] occasionally. :-) > > > Tangent: I would like to see requests-for-testing for FC kernels on LKML. > > If people announce -ac/-as/-aa/-ck/etc. kernels on LKML, why not distro > kernels? Debian unstable currently contains only for kernel 2.6.8 (which is AFAIK still the main kernel in Debian unstable although there are also 2.6.10 sources and 2.6.10 kernel images on some architectures) for eight different architectures - many of them containing or depending on their own patches. How big is the value of a New 2.6.8-5 s390 kernel images for Debian unstable - please test! or a New 2.2.25-4 atari kernel images for Debian unstable - please test! on LKML? Note that there are currently 42 (what a number ;-) ) different packages that build 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels images in Debian unstable plus the packages that build the kernel images for the 11 architectures in Debian stable. Considering how many other distributions exist, this generates a serious amount of extra traffic on LKML if a security hole gets fixed that affects many kernel versions... > Jeff cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/