From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261175AbVAKRuG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:50:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261208AbVAKRsu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:48:50 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:3565 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261175AbVAKRg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:36:26 -0500 Message-ID: <41E40E9D.9090502@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:36:29 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041211) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <1105096053.5444.11.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> <20050107111508.GA6667@infradead.org> <20050107111751.GA6765@infradead.org> <41DEC83D.30105@comcast.net> <1105196469.10519.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41E37DA0.80702@comcast.net> <1105456172.15742.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1105456172.15742.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: | On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 07:17, John Richard Moser wrote: | |>Hello?? |> |>The latest 2.0 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.0.40 2004-02-08 |>07:13 UTC F V VI Changelog |> |>You have FOUR. 2.6, 2.4, 2.2, 2.0 | | | 2.4.29 is as different from say 2.4.9 as 2.0 is from 2.2 or 2.6.9 from | 2.6.5 | | You have a lot more than four | That's not good. 2.4.29 should ideally be 2.4.9 with a buttload of bug fixes. Same with 2.6.5/2.6.9. Major feature differences should ideally come with majors, i.e. 2.0->2.2->2.4->2.6 A few bugfix backports may be fine, though that's already light to fair work (depending on how many security bugs are being found and need backporting, versus how many can patch clean without porting); How do you people maintain 4 ACTIVE branches? oi, whatever. | - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB5A6dhDd4aOud5P8RAhAtAJ9FgTkd/AyZXuI59gyiIVAJNFM9rgCdGYss kN4m4Bc5BVeVLZbWGHIP+xg= =hDM/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----