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Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:00:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I would not keep regular driver updates from a 2.6.<even> thing. > > Then the notion of it being stable is bogus, given how many regressions > the last few kernels have brought in drivers. Moving from 2.6.9 -> 2.6.10 > broke ALSA, USB, parport, firewire, and countless other little bits and > pieces that users tend to notice. > > The reason that things like 4-level page tables worked out so well > was that it was tested in -mm for however long, so by the time it got > to your tree, the silly bugs had already been shaken out. > > Compare this to random-driver-update. -mm testing is a valuable > proving ground, but its no panacea to stability. There's no guarantee > that someone with $affected_device even tried a -mm kernel. > > For it to truly be a stable kernel, the only patches I'd expect to > drivers would be ones fixing blindingly obvious bugs. No cleanups. > No new functionality. I'd even question new hardware support if it > wasn't just a PCI ID addition. Maybe I don't understand? Is someone expecting distro quality/stability from kernel.org kernels? I don't, but maybe I'm one of those minorities. -- ~Randy - 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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