On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:29:35 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the time between big merges increases, as with this proposal, then > the distance between local dev trees and linux-2.6 increases. > > With that distance, breakages like the 64-bit resource struct stuff > become more painful. > > I like my own "ongoing dev tree, ongoing stable tree" proposal a lot > better. But then, I'm biased :) The problem is people don't test until 2.6.whatever-final goes out. Nothing will change that. And the day Linus releases we always get a pile of "missing MODULE_EXPORT()" type bug reports that are one liner fixes. Those fixes will not be seen by users until the next 2.6.x rev comes out and right now that takes months which is rediculious for such simple fixes. We're talking about a one week "calming" period to collect the brown paper bag fixes for a 2.6.${even} release, that's all. All this "I have to hold onto my backlog longer, WAHHH!" arguments are bogus IMHO. We're using a week of quiescence to fix the tree for users so they are happy whilst we work on the 2.6.${odd} interesting stuff :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/