Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261588AbVCFWua (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:50:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261590AbVCFWqO (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:46:14 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:37255 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261588AbVCFWna (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:43:30 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:43:17 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Neil Brown , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050306224317.GB3890@elf.ucw.cz> 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> <20050303031047.GA30423@infradead.org> <1109893184.21781.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109893184.21781.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 27 Hi! > > 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) > > IMHO it is nowhere near conservative enough (or at times complete > enough) to be a 2.6.x.y kernel. In some respects -ac is closer but it > also isn't as conservative as a real 2.6.x.y should be. > > 2.6.x.y needs several people to keep it tight and to ensure there is > always cover on a security fix. Eh? Like you add security fix and then some formatting change to hide it? Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/