Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751116AbWATTD4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:03:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751147AbWATTD4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:03:56 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:55258 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116AbWATTD4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:03:56 -0500 Message-Id: <200601201903.k0KJ3qI7006425@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Michael Loftis Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, James Courtier-Dutton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:31:12 MST." <30D11C032F1FC0FE9CA1CDFD@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <43D10FF8.8090805@superbug.co.uk> <6769FDC09295B7E6078A5089@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> <30D11C032F1FC0FE9CA1CDFD@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1137783832_3397P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:03:52 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1137783832_3397P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:31:12 MST, Michael Loftis said: > It's horrificly expensive to maintain large numbers of machines (even if > it's automated) as it is. If you're doing embedded development too or > instead, it gets even harder when you need certain bugfixes or minor > changes, but end up having to redevelop things or start maintaining your > own kernel fork. But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel). Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large* chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of cross-porting the patch. --==_Exmh_1137783832_3397P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFD0TQYcC3lWbTT17ARAlIIAJ9DhuqSaiX9tCMFpsgyFo2wiCM9UQCfTWBY BElZslMqHyB9i0Fa6+dt/ug= =Mzhw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1137783832_3397P-- - 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/