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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:48:12 -0600
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: szonyi calin <caszonyi@yahoo.com>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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szonyi calin wrote:

> Let me tell you what i understood from this thread:
> 2.6.12 "almost stable"
> 2.6.13 devel (new drivers,fixes  and stuff -- may be broken)
> 2.6.14 (based on 2.6.13) tries to became stable again
> 2.6.15 also devel (see above)
> 2.6.16 (based on 2.6.15) also tries to became stable again
> 
> So we will _want_ to have a stable kernel (like 2.4 now) but 
> this will never happen (see above) 

No.  Linus' proposal was shouted down.

What is happening is that Linus will continue to release 2.6.x as usual, 
with no even/odd stuff.

Then a review committee will maintain 2.6.x.y (where y starts at 1 and 
increments).  This will contain obvious fixes against 2.6.x.  When Linus 
comes out with 2.6.x+1, then they will start a new stable tree 2.6.x+1.y.

Please see the thread entitled "[RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.", 
started by Greg KH for more information on the "stable" release process.

Chris
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