From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262998AbVAFTin (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:38:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262990AbVAFTgY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:36:24 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:1448 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262996AbVAFTfl (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:35:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:32:14 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Paolo Ciarrocchi Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Bill Davidsen , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050106193214.GK3096@stusta.de> References: <20050103134727.GA2980@stusta.de> <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org> <4d8e3fd30501060603247e955a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30501060603247e955a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > What's wrong in keeping the release management as is now plus > introducing a 2.6.X.Y series of kernels ? > > In short: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109882220123966&w=2 Currently (2.6.10), there would have been 11 such branches. If a security vulnerability was found today, this meant backporting and applying the patch to 11 different kernel versions, the oldest one being more than one year old. With more 2.6 versions, there would be even more branches, and the oldest ones becoming more and more different from the current codebase. You could at some point start dropping the oldest branches, but this would mean a migration to a more recent branch for all users of this branch. OTOH, if you migrated relatively late at 2.4.17 to the 2.4 branch, this branch is still actively maintained today, more than 3 years later. > Best, > Paolo Ciarrocchi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed