Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262979AbVCERy6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:54:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263035AbVCERtd (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:49:33 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:23562 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261698AbVCERq6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:46:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:46:54 +0000 From: Russell King To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1 Message-ID: <20050305174654.J3282@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org References: <20050304175302.GA29289@kroah.com> <20050304124431.676fd7cf.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304205842.GA32232@kroah.com> <20050304131537.7039ca10.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304135933.3a325efc.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304220518.GC1201@kroah.com> <20050305095139.A26541@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4229EA0A.8010608@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 17 On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know > whether something should be eventually used or not. Wait a minute - why would stuff going into 2.6.x.y be "experimental" stuff? Wasn't stability the whole point of this tree? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/