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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:06:38 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Sunil Naidu <akula2.shark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Proposal] 2.6.18-stable release plans?
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Sunil Naidu wrote:
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> Am talking from the Linux users point of view (who need to know deep
> about the Kernel development, etc. Imagine, a student or a
> professional who wants to build a kernel with a patch for a i686
> machine?

You speak of advanced users with very special requirements. They can
watch respective mailinglists, git trees, bugzillas, ... The file
MAINTAINERS contains some pointers for them.

...
> But we can give info in general? Example, if patch-2.6.19.3
> comes out - simply we can say as *x86 32/64* based on the weightage of
> fixes in that patch. What do you say?

This cannot be measured objectively.
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Stefan Richter
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