Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932544AbWCNWVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:21:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932546AbWCNWVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:21:40 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:44557 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932544AbWCNWVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:21:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:21:32 +0000 From: Russell King To: Grant Coady Cc: Willy Tarreau , Arjan van de Ven , j4K3xBl4sT3r , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system? Message-ID: <20060314222131.GB3166@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Grant Coady , Willy Tarreau , Arjan van de Ven , j4K3xBl4sT3r , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <436c596f0603121640h4f286d53h9f1dd177fd0475a4@mail.gmail.com> <1142237867.3023.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1142273212.3023.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060314062144.GC21493@w.ods.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 33 On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:03:39PM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: > By stable I mean rate of change of codebase, patch volume per month, > 2.6 is orders of magnitude less stable than 2.4 by that simple measure. That is no measure of stability. If, say, I merge a large patch in order to support ARM SMP and Linus takes that, let's say for the sake of argument that's a 10MB diff. It doesn't touch anything other than files which are solely built or used for the ARM architecture. Are you going to claim that the kernel is, therefore, unstable on x86? So, by your very comment above, if all the updates to non-x86 architectures were prevented from happening in mainline, you'd have a much more stable kernel. Uh huh. There's a saying about comparing apples and oranges which springs to mind here - did you miss that lesson? (Please do _not_ cc or reply directly to me in this thread - I'll read replies from the mailing list, thanks.) -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/