Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:01:18 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:40:28PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-12-05T12:34:20, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote: > > > > Anyway, good luck to you. > > > > > > The current 2.6.x.y-stable series is quite sane, because they are > > > essentially just fixing very critical bugs in very recent kernels, with > > > little back porting effort. > > > > I agree it is sane. The problem is that it does not exist for long enough. > > When you have 2.6.14.X working perfectly and you need a fix for a newly > > discovered security fix which only exists in 2.6.15.Y, then you have to > > leave 2.6.14 and enter 2.6.15. That is the problem, because for just a > > fix, you change megabytes of source code which will bring their equivalent > > in bugs. > > As I said, please, go on maintaining a release for a longer period of > time.
As I said, I know this is difficult, I already do this for 2.4 and 2.4 is not moving fast. But what Adrian wants to do might be far more difficult. That's why I suggest him to do "only" this, he will have less work and get a lot of happy users.
Regards, Willy
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