Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:01:18 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:40:28PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2005-12-05T12:34:20, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> 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.

As I said, I know this is difficult, I already do this for 2.4 and 2.4 is
not moving fast. But what Adrian wants to do might be far more difficult.
That's why I suggest him to do "only" this, he will have less work and get
a lot of happy users.

Regards,
Willy

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