Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:28:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:28:13 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:39178 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:28:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Request for 2.4.20 to be a non-trivial-bugfixes-only version To: mtopper@xarch.tu-graz.ac.at Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:27:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org (Ruth Ivimey-Cook), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org) In-Reply-To: from "mtopper@xarch.tu-graz.ac.at" at Mar 29, 2002 05:00:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > It would help 2.4 a lot, I think. > > I'd prefer that too! We've always cheered these x.y.20 versions for being > so stable (2.2.20 comes to mind). I hope we can keep up the tradition *g* Its somewhat naiive. If you have a hole in a bridge and someone tells you that for stability you can only paint the bridge and tighten bolts you will still have a very broke bridge. Ditto with software. 2.2.20 is stable because its been slowly refined to that and is now at the point where on the hole the painting and bolt tightening is all that needs doing. The 2.4 tree suffered serious earthquake damage in 2.4.10 which hasn't entirely been fixed yet. - 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/