Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932198AbVLDDsT (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:48:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751310AbVLDDsT (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:48:19 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.195]:44199 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbVLDDsS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:48:18 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mb9uJs7hfzNUvMbpqpns0kz+fAXyrH+HGspq/66IIZ9F+IBaf3LRVYGNhl5Zf5EK/v9TXWYj57H7aAN6sKs+DK74o/+EumjuOIw49BZwY0gXCSdNNjPKvmjGnlz1aoIUxXVZ5+b0yUxhx0Upu6AxFDNIQeSIIx7FaXdtz0i18vI= Message-ID: <9a8748490512031948m26b04d3ds9fbc652893ead40@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 04:48:17 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Greg KH Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 26 On 12/3/05, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:29:54PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > Why can't this be done by distributors/vendors? > > It already is done by these people, look at the "enterprise" Linux > distributions and their 5 years of maintance (or whatever the number > is.) > > If people/customers want stability, they already have this option. > Yes, I know this is what's done with the "enterprise" distro kernels. Perhaps I should have phrased it "Why can't this job just stay with vendors". -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/