Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932301AbVLDRAv (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:00:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932302AbVLDRAu (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:00:50 -0500 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.88]:59913 "EHLO unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932301AbVLDRAu (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:00:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:00:49 +0100 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: Greg KH Cc: Jesper Juhl , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20051204170049.GA4179@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Greg KH , Jesper Juhl , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 34 On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0800, 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. If the kernel was stable (reliability wise - as in "not crashing") then you'd be perfectly right. In the real world, however, admins currently need to pick out specific versions of the kernel for specific workloads (try running a large fileserver on anything but 2.6.11.11 for example - any earlier or later kernel will barf reliably. For web serving it's another kernel that's golden, I forgot which). There are very very good reasons for offering a 'stable series' in plain source-tree form - lots of admins of real-world systems need this. Adrian, I like the idea :) -- / jakob - 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/