Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: A users thoughts on the new dev. model | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:08:30 -0400 |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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.
I would consider removing devfs or cryptoloop invasive, since they would mean some people just flat-out couldn't use the kernel with their existing system.
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