Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932380AbVLELkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:40:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932374AbVLELkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:40:49 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:38114 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932380AbVLELks (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:40:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:40:28 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk , Matthias Andree Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20051205114028.GD5148@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> <9a8748490512031948m26b04d3ds9fbc652893ead40@mail.gmail.com> <20051204115650.GA15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <20051204232454.GG8914@kroah.com> <20051205062609.GA7096@alpha.home.local> <20051205105536.GB5148@marowsky-bree.de> <20051205113420.GA9149@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20051205113420.GA9149@alpha.home.local> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 33 On 2005-12-05T12:34:20, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Anyway, good luck to you. > > > > The current 2.6.x.y-stable series is quite sane, because they are > > essentially just fixing very critical bugs in very recent kernels, with > > little back porting effort. > > I agree it is sane. The problem is that it does not exist for long enough. > When you have 2.6.14.X working perfectly and you need a fix for a newly > discovered security fix which only exists in 2.6.15.Y, then you have to > leave 2.6.14 and enter 2.6.15. That is the problem, because for just a > fix, you change megabytes of source code which will bring their equivalent > in bugs. As I said, please, go on maintaining a release for a longer period of time. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - 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/