On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:07:30 +0100 (MET)
> From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
> To: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
> Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>,
> linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Standard Development Integration
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marco Colombo wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > 2.0.39pre is not what i call "active development": it's still supported
> > for bug fixes. I doubt any major kernel features (knfds, RAID 0.90, ext3,
> > ReiserFS) will be back-ported. I'm an happy user of 2.0.38 box, i like
> > having that kernel serie updated. But that's not active development,
> > please. And i think no one wants it. 2.0.xx is rock-stable, and i love
> > 3 lines patches like 2.0.37 to 2.0.38 (or was it 5 lines? B-)).
> > "Active development" means new features added, if not major kernel core
> > redesign. I do hope 2.0.xx won't see that!
>
> Rest assured that it won't. While the patch from v2.0.38 to v2.0.39 *will*
> be somewhat larger than v2.0.37 to v2.0.38, the changes will be almost as
> minimal. No new features.
Very good. I'd call it mantainance, not "active development"... good job
anyway.
>
> v2.0.39pre1 is 5160 bytes. v2.0.39pre2 is, at the moment (not yet
> finalised) 167075 bytes, and will probably not grow much further. 2979
> bytes of the diff touches code (and that includes the diff context), the
> rest is white-space changes, changes of Documentation, CREDITS,
> MAINTAINERS, whitespace, backporting of a code-page 8859-14 and some
> other text-fixes.
>
> The only thing I consider adding now is a change to the Makefile to add
> an extra-version during the pre-patches.
>
Right now i've got a small fw, based on RHL4.1, upgraded to 2.0.38.
It's production quality and i don't need the new features of advanced
firewalling in 2.2. I used to have also a proxy server, but i upgraded it
recently to RHL6.1. Anyway, supporting 2.0.x is good. 2.2 is quite a
different beast. That's a minor reason to have a stable kernel released
more often, so they don't differ to much. But that's another story
(and another thread, i think).
>
> /David
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>
>
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