Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751329AbVLDH4T (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:56:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751330AbVLDH4T (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:56:19 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34490 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751329AbVLDH4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 02:56:18 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel From: Arjan van de Ven To: "M." Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> <20051203211209.GA4937@kroah.com> <1133645895.22170.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:56:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1133682973.5188.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.8 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [213.93.14.173 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 1.7 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL RBL: NJABL: dialup sender did non-local SMTP [213.93.14.173 listed in combined.njabl.org] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 39 > > > > > . Another > > > advantage would be to benefit external projects and hardware producers > > > writing open drivers, enlowering the effort in writing and mantaining > > > a driver. > > > > there is an even better model for those: Get it merged into kernel.org! > > > > > > There is an even bigger deal here: even if you're not ready to get > > merged yet, staying on the same old version for 6 months is NOT going to > > help you. In fact it's worse: it is 10x easier to deal with 6 small > > steps of 1 month than to deal with 1 big step of 6 months. > > > > > from the kernel.org point of view it does make sense but from users > pov i think no. Users stuck with old drivers not actively mantained > would benefit from this. actually no. since that only buys them a few months at most, and then you're entirely stuck again. And patching it up after 6 months is a lot harder than doing smaller steps of 1 month, especially for less experienced people. > There are some open drivers wrote by hardware mantainers which will > never get into kernel.org cause of code not following kernel style > guides and so on. which ones did you have in mind? - 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/