Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:56:13 +0100 |
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> > > > > . Another > > > advantage would be to benefit external projects and hardware producers > > > writing open drivers, enlowering the effort in writing and mantaining > > > a driver. > > > > there is an even better model for those: Get it merged into kernel.org! > > > > > > There is an even bigger deal here: even if you're not ready to get > > merged yet, staying on the same old version for 6 months is NOT going to > > help you. In fact it's worse: it is 10x easier to deal with 6 small > > steps of 1 month than to deal with 1 big step of 6 months. > > > > > from the kernel.org point of view it does make sense but from users > pov i think no. Users stuck with old drivers not actively mantained > would benefit from this.
actually no. since that only buys them a few months at most, and then you're entirely stuck again. And patching it up after 6 months is a lot harder than doing smaller steps of 1 month, especially for less experienced people.
> There are some open drivers wrote by hardware mantainers which will > never get into kernel.org cause of code not following kernel style > guides and so on.
which ones did you have in mind?
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