From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263836AbTK2RLU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:11:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263849AbTK2RLT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:11:19 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:64271 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263836AbTK2RLO (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:11:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:11:11 +0000 From: Russell King To: Larry McVoy , Tim Cambrant , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Too soon for stable release? Message-ID: <20031129171111.A32154@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Tim Cambrant , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20031129174916.GA4592@cambrant.com> <20031129170104.GA15333@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031129170104.GA15333@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:04AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:04AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > The news media hasn't picked up on this yet, they seem to think that > 2.6.0 is something that will be useful. It won't be, there will be a > period of months during which things stablize and then you'll see the > distros pick up the release. I don't remember where it was exactly > (2.4.18?) but Red Hat waited quite a while before switching to 2.4 > from 2.2. This is normal and it works out quite well in practice. Red Hat did a 2.4.2 release which was 2.4.2 + a lot of stability changes. IIRC, RH7.x was based on 2.4.7, with updates to 2.4.9, 2.4.18 and finally 2.4.20-based kernels. However, I also seem to remember each of these had a fair number of patches applied. I'm sure Arjan will correct me if I got the above wrong. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core