From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758887AbXF0NxX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:53:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752158AbXF0NxR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:53:17 -0400 Received: from [212.12.190.29] ([212.12.190.29]:32929 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752135AbXF0NxQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:53:16 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:53:58 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706271653.58870.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:18:36AM +0200, Zolt?n HUBERT wrote: > > And as I understand it, this is (was ?) the whole point of > > stable/development kernels. "We" can trust a newer stable > > kernel to be a drop-in replacement for an older stable > > kernel (from the same series), while development kernels > > need time to stabilise with the new whizz-bang-pfouit stuff > > that you all so nicely add. > > "Drop-in" in which sense? That out-of-tree modules keep working? > Not really... Al, be reasonable. There are many out-of-tree GPL modules that won't be accepted into mainline, never mind those that shouldn't be accepted. But these modules do have a right to not be obsoleted by constant API changes. You are effectively inhibiting the development of an out-of-tree GPL module pool, by constantly pulling the rug under that community. Do you think this is fair? Thanks! -- Al