Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:01:41 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Well. We'll see. 2.6 is becoming stabler, despite the fact that we're > adding features. > > I wouldn't be averse to releasing a 2.6.20.1 which is purely stability > fixes against 2.6.20 if there is demand for it. Anyone who really cares > about stability of kernel.org kernels won't be deploying 2.6.20 within a > few weeks of its release anyway, so by the time they doodle over to > kernel.org they'll find 2.6.20.2 or whatever.
I wont recommend this, as it screws with some (most?) things trying to detect kernel version running from uname =)
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