Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:17:51 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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[wrong cc list last time]
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:15:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:07:33PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Since 2.6 is turning into a continuous release, how about just taking > > the last 2.6 release every six months and backport security fixes to it > > for the next half year ? > > Half a year is far too long because hardware is changing to fast for that. > Three month sounds like a much better idea. > > The real problem is that this is a really time-consuming issue, so > there need to be people actually commited to doing this kind of thing. > > Andres Salomon from the Debian Kernel maintaince team has been thinking > about such a bugfix tree, but he's worried about having the time to > actually get the work done - and we know what we're talking about as > we're trying to keep a properly fixed 2.6.8 tree for Debian sarge. > > - > 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/ ---end quoted text--- - 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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