Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:24:10 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) |
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:21:27AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > So now the world is divided in gods (i.e distributions) and we, > > mere mortals who should pray to the gods to give us a stable > > kernel ? > > This seems to be where a lot of the misunderstanding is. Did anybody > notice just how divergent the distributors' 2.4 (and prior) kernels were > from the mainline? If you wanted a kernel with that level of features > and stability, you had to get it from them - or apply hundreds of > patches yourself. > > One of the goals of the process now is to get those distributor patches > into the mainline quickly. My expectation is that the mainline kernel > will be far closer to what the distributors ship than it has been in a > long time, and the mainline will be more stable for it. Just the > opposite of what a lot of people are saying.
Well, back in v2.4 "hot-stop", most of the patches merged into distro's kernels were not "trustable" enough to be merged into v2.4 mainline, and I had no capability of reviewing them myself and make a good enough judgment of whether they should be included or not.
Another point I had against merging some of those patches was that most of them were targeted at "enterprise" users and benefit almost only them (eg finer-grained locking, etc).
To resume, I prefered to be more "conservative".
Of course, fortunately Andrew is much more capable of doing judgements on "trustability" of patches and so forth.
Obviously its a good thing to try to keep the differences between distro's kernels and mainline kernels small, and Andrew is targetting that. - 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/
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