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From: Andreas Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
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Am Mo 31.10.2005 05:52 schrieb Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:

> 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?

Yes. Historically 2.<odd> kernels were like this.
 
-Andi
 

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