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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:31:03 -0500
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The current kernel development model is pretty good for people who 
> always want to use or offer their costumers the maximum amount of the 
> latest bugs^Wfeatures without having to resort on additional patches for 
> them.
> 
> Problems of the current development model from a user's point of view 
> are:
> - many regressions in every new release
> - kernel updates often require updates for the kernel-related userspace 
>   (e.g. for udev or the pcmcia tools switch)
> 
> One problem following from this is that people continue to use older 
> kernels with known security holes because the amount of work for kernel 
> upgrades is too high.

What you're suggesting sounds just like going back to the old style of
development where 2.<even>.x is stable, and 2.<odd>.x is development.
You might as well just suggest that after 2.6.16, we fork to 2.7.0, and
2.6.17+ will be stable increments like we always used to do.

You're just munging the version scheme :)

-- 
   Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
   Developer
   Ubuntu Linux

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