| Date | Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:31:03 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The current kernel development model is pretty good for people who > always want to use or offer their costumers the maximum amount of the > latest bugs^Wfeatures without having to resort on additional patches for > them. > > Problems of the current development model from a user's point of view > are: > - many regressions in every new release > - kernel updates often require updates for the kernel-related userspace > (e.g. for udev or the pcmcia tools switch) > > One problem following from this is that people continue to use older > kernels with known security holes because the amount of work for kernel > upgrades is too high.
What you're suggesting sounds just like going back to the old style of development where 2.<even>.x is stable, and 2.<odd>.x is development. You might as well just suggest that after 2.6.16, we fork to 2.7.0, and 2.6.17+ will be stable increments like we always used to do.
You're just munging the version scheme :)
-- Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com> Developer Ubuntu Linux
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