Matthew Hawkins <matthew@topic.com.au> said:
[...]
> Perhaps the development model could shift to one where as small portions
> of the kernel get fixed, its backported to the current stable series.
You never noticed it happening all the time, it seems. But kernels from
different series _are_ different inside, so backporting is _hard_ once they
have diverged a bit.
> I realise large structural changes could prevent this in a lot of cases,
> but it'd be neat if the 2.4 VM was "good enough" and got replaced later
> down the track with the rearchitected version.
I'd say that is impossible for something that central in the OS.
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