Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751291AbVLCQjX (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:39:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751294AbVLCQjW (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:39:22 -0500 Received: from covilha.procergs.com.br ([200.198.128.244]:54659 "EHLO covilha.procergs.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751291AbVLCQjW (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:39:22 -0500 From: Otavio Salvador To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Organization: O.S. Systems Ltda. References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <1133620598.22170.14.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051203152339.GK31395@stusta.de> <20051203162755.GA31405@merlin.emma.line.org> X-URL: http://www.debian.org/~otavio/ X-Attribution: O.S. Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:40:16 -0200 In-Reply-To: <20051203162755.GA31405@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:27:55 +0100") Message-ID: <87k6em2ky7.fsf@nurf.casa> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 26 Matthias Andree writes: >> This could work, but it should be officially announced that e.g. a >> userspace running kernel 2.6.15 must work flawlessly with _any_ future >> 2.6 kernel. > > Right. This effectively means to call the beast 2.8.0 if you feel you > must break the applications. Looks like things are leaving clear the need of 2.7 for those developments. This is my point of view. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: otavio@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://www.freedom.ind.br/otavio --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft gives you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." - 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/