Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751339AbVJaExI (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:53:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751366AbVJaExI (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:53:08 -0500 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:46520 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751339AbVJaExH (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:53:07 -0500 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:52:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: linux kernel mailing list References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051030213221.GA28020@thunk.org> <200510310145.43663.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200510310145.43663.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510302252.55283.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 17 On Sunday 30 October 2005 18:45, Andi Kleen wrote: > The problem is that -mm* contains typically so many more or less > broken changes that any extensive work on there is futile > because you never know whose bugs you're debugging > (and if the patch that is broken will even make it anywhere) > > In short mainline is frozen too long and -mm* is too unstable. Are you implying that if mainline wasn't frozen so much, it would still be more stable than -mm? Rob - 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/