From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757165AbXD0Tgr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:36:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757171AbXD0Tgr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:36:47 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:39543 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757165AbXD0Tgq (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:36:46 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46325070.9040706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:35:12 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Tokarev CC: Krzysztof Halasa , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 References: <20070426040806.GJ3468@stusta.de> <20070426125802.GL3468@stusta.de> <20070426165950.GO3468@stusta.de> <46322F63.9000604@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <46322F63.9000604@msgid.tls.msk.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Tokarev wrote: [...] > there will be just no stable > kernels *at all*. because when the next 2.6.x will start looking > more or less useful due to 2.6.x.y series, there will be new 2.6.x+1, > and work with 2.6.x stops... > > It's not the case currently, but this way ("let's fix the bugs > in 2.6.x.y -stable series, don't bother releasing 2.6.x in a good > shape"), we can finally come to the above situation... Actually, bugs are fixed in --> 2.6.(x+1)-rc <--, and shortly thereafter a small selection of the fixes are "backported" to 2.6.x.y and to various distributor kernels. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/