Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:05:08 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:32:23 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> I also note that part of the problem that motivates the even/odd thing > is a tacit acknowledgement that people only _really_ test the official > releases. > > Which IMHO backs up my opinion that we simply need more frequent releases.
This more frequent release idea will basically mimmick what the even/odd idea will do, except that even/odd will have specific engineering goals. Development vs. pure bug fixing.
There are changes that simply have to sit for weeks if not months in order for all the problems to be weeded out. I think something like the 4-level pagetable stuff is the best example. And yes it has to occur in Linus's tree so what precious few people do test his live tree try out the new code. - 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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