Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751496AbVLEXJx (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:09:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751495AbVLEXJx (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:09:53 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:26613 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751496AbVLEXJw (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:09:52 -0500 Message-ID: <43949686.3020300@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:35:34 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> <20051203211209.GA4937@kroah.com> <1133645895.22170.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1133682973.5188.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1133709038.5188.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1133709038.5188.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1629 Lines: 39 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:57 +0100, M. wrote: > > >>if distros would align on those 6months versions those less >>experienced users would get 5 years support on those kernels. > > > no distro gives 5 years of support for a kernel done every 6 months; > they start such projects more like every 18 to 24 months (SuSE used to > do it a bit more frequently but it seems they also slowed this down). > > >>example: redhat, suse and mandriva are releasing their new product >>using the latest 6months (or whatever) kernel; they are not going to >>patch it except for new filesystems or bugfixes because of the new dev > > > "except for" is a slipperly slope. And "except for bugfixes" would be > wrong... those would be the ones that need to be in the kernel.org > kernel. As well as new hardware support. At which point.. what is the > difference? Where do 'features' stop and where do 'only needed bugfixes' > begin? Given the examples of 2.2 and 2.4 ongoing low level maintenence, I think that's a poor objection, a stable series (in the old sense) needs one maintainer to make the decisions on what goings in, and typically people will do the actualy work cooperating with the primary maintainer. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/