Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:33:37 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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Hi Andrew,
my personal opinon is that this new development model isn't a good idea from the point of view of users:
There's much worth in having a very stable kernel. Many people use for different reasons self-compiled ftp.kernel.org kernels. In 2.4, it took until at about 2.4.18 or 2.4.22 [1] until it was reasonable stable. Today, most code in the 2.4 kernel has had several years of testing and it's therefore quite stable even in unusual configurations. Besides this, an upgrade like from 2.4.25 to 2.4.26 is pretty low-risk since there shouldn't be any changes that might break existing setups.
If your work together with Linus is so effective, why can't you both do all the changes in a new 2.7 tree that includes also all incompatible and potential dangerous changes as well as the removal of obsolete code like devfs or OSS. I don't see the negative effect if a 2.7 branch was created today and together with a feature freeze for 2.7 three months from now this might result in a 2.8.0 before christmas [2] that contains all the new features/removals/changes while 2.6 will evolve further into a rock-solid stable kernel.
cu Adrian
[1] there are different opinions on the exact version number, but it was definitely not 2.4.10 [2] perhaps a bit optimistic, but it shouldn't be years from now
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