Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262874AbVCDONE (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:13:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262877AbVCDONE (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:13:04 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:15786 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262874AbVCDOMm (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:12:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:12:12 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Jesper Juhl Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Russell King , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050304141211.GC18335@suse.de> References: <20050302230634.A29815@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <42265023.20804@pobox.com> <20050303002733.GH10124@redhat.com> <42268037.3040300@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 25 On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > I run vanilla kernels on all my boxes, workstations and > servers, since I don't really trust vendor kernels. That's a strange statement, I don't think you are aware of the level of testing that goes into a vendor kernel, at least for the 'enterprise' products. There's just no comparison to the vanilla kernels. Of course fixes get merged back into the vanilla kernels, but these just don't have the lengthy test and maturity period of vendor kernels (by a long stretch). In fact the 2.6 cycle is specially geared towards vendor stabilization. At some point this will slow down of course, but I don't expect that to happen in the near future. -- Jens Axboe - 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/