Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751369AbWCOAqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752092AbWCOAqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:24 -0500 Received: from relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([203.220.32.149]:65423 "EHLO relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751369AbWCOAqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:23 -0500 From: Grant Coady To: Russell King 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? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:46:18 +1100 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: gcoady@gmail.com Message-ID: References: <436c596f0603121640h4f286d53h9f1dd177fd0475a4@mail.gmail.com> <1142237867.3023.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1142273212.3023.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060314062144.GC21493@w.ods.org> <20060314222131.GB3166@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060314222131.GB3166@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 35 On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:21:32 +0000, Russell King wrote: >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. You're welcome to your opinion. >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. So what? You're not one of the people here beholden to pushing a distro's agenda for mainstream x86 windoze wannabe desktops. >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. Not at all, you choose whatever interpretation suits your world view. >(Please do _not_ cc or reply directly to me in this thread - I'll >read replies from the mailing list, thanks.) Get real Grant. - 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/