Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751262AbWAVI5l (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:57:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751265AbWAVI5l (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:57:41 -0500 Received: from free.wgops.com ([69.51.116.66]:59921 "EHLO shell.wgops.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751262AbWAVI5l (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:57:41 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:57:19 -0700 From: Michael Loftis To: Bernd Petrovitsch , Lee Revell Cc: Sven-Haegar Koch , Matthew Frost , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE? Message-ID: <4BC1BE8FDDB41AAA7205E258@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> In-Reply-To: <1137883888.3291.53.camel@gimli.at.home> References: <20060121031958.98570.qmail@web81905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1FA093EB58B02DE48E424157@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <1137829140.3241.141.camel@mindpipe> <1137881882.411.23.camel@mindpipe> <3B0BEE012630B9B11D1209E5@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <1137883638.411.38.camel@mindpipe> <1137883888.3291.53.camel@gimli.at.home> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@wgops.com X-MailScanner: WGOPS clean X-MailScanner-From: mloftis@wgops.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 38 --On January 21, 2006 11:51:28 PM +0100 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > And the more the development head proceeds from the "stable" one, the > more work is it to "backport" some hardware driver IMHO. Especially if > "stability" is a primary concern. Yes, I realise all of this. But everyone seems to get this damned territorial attitude that I want to see kernel development stopped, quite the opposite. All I want to see is a stable target for certain windows of time. So that way when bugs are fixed that are trivial there's a place to go without upgrading scads of userland stuff or worrying about lots of unrelated change. > > Bernd > -- > Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services > > > > -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler - 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/