From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261638AbVADNaO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:30:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261656AbVADNaO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:30:14 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:37831 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261638AbVADN3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:29:07 -0500 Message-Id: <200501041327.j04DRhfQ007850@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: Message from Felipe Alfaro Solana of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:03:53 BST." <5B2E0ED4-5DD3-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:27:43 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Felipe Alfaro Solana said: [...] > Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I > want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously > annoy users and vendors. If you are sooo attached to this, just keep a distribution for which vendors give you drivers. But when the vendor decides the product has to die to get you to buy the next "completely redone" (== minor fixes and updates) version, you are stranded for good. > I think new developments will force a 2.7 branch: when 2.6 feature set > stabilizes, people will keep more time testing a stable, relatively > static kernel base, finding bugs, instead of trying to keep up with > changes. And when 2.7 opens, very few developers will tend 2.6; and as 2.7 diverges from it, fewer and fewer fixes will find their way back. And so you finally get a rock-stable (== unchanging) 2.6, but hopelessly out of date and thus unfixable (if nothing else because there are no people around who remember how it worked). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513