Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2005 10:28:59 -0700 | From | randy_dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Version Explanation |
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On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:45:43 -0400 Fao, Sean wrote:
| Schneelocke wrote: | | >On 30/05/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: | > | > | >>>It looks to me like the word "stable" is overused on the main page | >>>at www.kernel.org . | >>> | >>> | >>That's because there isn't an odd-number series right now. | >> | >> | > | >Will there ever be one again (at least in the foreseeable future)? | >We've had "Linus = stable, -mm = unstable" for a long time now, and it | >seems pretty much official now that there won't be a 2.7 anytime soon. | >The actual development of new features is happening in the relevant | >maintainers' trees, anyway, so there simply seems to be no need for a | >single highly development-oriented tree (like 2.5 was) anymore - quite | >the contrary. | > | > | | My understanding was that Linus eventually decided upon something in the | middle. I understood that there still wouldn't be a 2.7.x branch | (unless major changes occurred, which would severely risk breaking the | stable tree). However, it was also my understanding that Linus would | return to the even/odd version system; but, would do so in the rev. In | other words, 2.6.even would be stable, while 2.6.odd would be | development. I did, however, become slightly confused when I connected | to http://www.kernel.org and noticed that the latest stable kernel was | 2.6.11.11 because it's both odd and contains four version numbers rather | than the three, which we've usually seen. | | Hope that clears up what my confusion is.
The even/odd-ness of 'x' in the 2.6.x version number discussion was ultimately rejected as far as it having any stable/development/test meaning.
Mostly Linus's 2.6.x tree is for stable work and Andrew's -mm patchset is for development work. However, as I often say, everything is relative. There are no absolutes in this.
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