Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:15:30 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > I'd prefer not. I get reports from people about drivers that got "lost"
> > by vendors, regularly. Nor am I pointing fingers at specific vendors here,
> > last month I sorted out a two year old "lost in Red Hat Bugzilla" kernel
> > bug for example.
> 
> How many maintainers want to get bug reports against the kernel 2.6.9 
> shipped with RHEL 4?

The enterprise kernels which tend to be the ones with the long lag also
have a userbase with support contracts so tend not to consider l/k as
their first support stop anyway.

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