Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:40:56 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: A users thoughts on the new dev. model |
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:58:27PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <cdpee5$otu$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> > By author: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I confess I feel that this new model is a return to the bad old days > > when the stable tree wasn't. Sounds as if Andrew is bored with the idea > > of letting 2.7 be the development tree and just being the gatekeeper of > > STABLE new features for 2.6. Perhaps 2.7 should be opened and Andrew > > will have a place to play, and features can drift to 2.6 more slowly. > > > > I think the discussion we had at the kernel summit has been somewhat > misrepresented by LWN et al. What we discussed was really more of a > "soft fork", with the -mm tree serving the purpose of 2.7, rather than > a hard fork with a separate maintainer and putting ourselves in > back/forward-porting hell all over again. > > Note that Andrew's -mm tree *specificially* has infrastructure to keep > changes apart and thus backporting to 2.6 mainstream of patches which > have proven themselves becomes trivial. >...
One problem from a user's point of view is that removal of obsolete code that works sufficiently for some users.
Andrew said explicitely in a mail to linux-kernel that he'd consider removing devfs "mid-2005" - and it didn't sound as if this would only be a -mm "feature".
Even if 2.7 is started this doesn't has to imply that it has to be flooded with big changes - a short 2.7 with relativley few invasive changes might also be an option.
> -hpa
cu Adrian
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