Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754774AbYJUS4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:56:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751715AbYJUSz5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:55:57 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:54266 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338AbYJUSz5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:55:57 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <48FE2582.7090507@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:54:58 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Howells CC: Alexandre Oliva , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg KH , Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change References: <20081016002509.GA25868@kroah.com> <20081016124943.GE23630@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081016151748.GA31075@kroah.com> <20081016153053.GJ5834@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20081016154726.GA6331@kroah.com> <20081016171626.GB22554@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081017040239.GB28188@kroah.com> <20081017103138.1ca68d17@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48F8C000.8030003@kernel.org> <20081017174226.GF2221@kroah.com> <48F98DE2.8030205@kernel.org> <48FCD421.2010208@bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48FCD421.2010208@bytemark.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 23 Alex Howells wrote: > What I'd love to see any changes integrate would be a simple way to spot > -stable releases in the version number (ie: 2.6.16, 2.6.27, those > maintained for a "long" time and hopefully by 2.6.16.50+ quite 'bug > free') versus the rest of releases sent out on a more regular basis. Side note: Long-term maintained kernels like Adrian's 2.6.16.y or distro kernels of this sort -> are not 'quite bug free' <-. They are only -> quite regression free <-. If you want bug fixes, you generally want new kernels. Only a fraction of the bug fixes in new kernels are backported to the long-term maintained stable kernels. OTOH, also only a fraction of the regressions in new kernels is backported to them. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =-=- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/