Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751142AbVLGPtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:49:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751155AbVLGPtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:49:03 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:24449 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbVLGPtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:49:01 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Rob Landley , Mark Lord , Adrian Bunk , David Ranson , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Andree In-Reply-To: <4395DDA8.8000003@tmr.com> References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <4394681B.20608@rtr.ca> <1133800090.21641.17.camel@mindpipe> <200512051158.06882.rob@landley.net> <4395DDA8.8000003@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:48:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1133970518.2869.37.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: 613 Lines: 18 > The other group is the people who use and depend on some feature, be it > cryptoloop, 8k stacks, ndiswrapper, ipchains, whatever... which is > scheduled for extinction. these are actually 2 groups 1) people who depend on an in-kernel features 2) people who depend on out of kernel / binary modules treating them as one is not correct or fair to this thread. - 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/