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    SubjectRe: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs)
    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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    of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
    "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
    Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

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