Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932391Ab1EXOJs (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:48 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:45440 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752653Ab1EXOJr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Vcnu2NXSsbfD5bLO/tlSFAiKvfEMhKQ6Z/2ZFNXxh4vmGO4+gUdwkgfa15io5uG8US awJPx7GltdEbc3I88xFC/M3FWhFw20H7yTlz63hr6NCcigFdAUBcFFFOuGzN/ly5gS0Z cUoMwMg2qpfFWR5vHfid/S0xVNKhA3FsqPH6M= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:09:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder From: Jerome Glisse To: werner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1425 Lines: 27 On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:40 AM, werner wrote: > Version numbers should not be only numerology, but connected to quality or > progress. ?Comparing the situation of the 1, 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 versions, > since starting 2.6 , the progress of the kernel, and also the situation of > Linux as a whole and of its use changed very. ?Exactly in the last > subversions with many new hardware modules/drivers the quality improved > very. ?At the same time, the subversions becomes too much since the last new > version. ?Thus, it's time for 2.8 or even 3.0 in order to mark this very > improved quality and use of Linux since the start of the 2 and 2.6 versions. > ? ?wl > --- If i were to give my feeling, and i am doing it right now, i wish that such version change to be backed with things like removal of dead code for instance in the GPU side we would like at one point to drop non KMS path and delete a whole bunch of files and dead API in the process (at least that's on my bad santa list). Non KMS is in survival mode, at this point we try to not break it but we don't give shit about it. Bug against it are redirected to the closest black hole. Cheers, Jerome -- 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/