Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 23:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Ideally, the 2.6.x.y maintainer wouldn't need any particular kernel
> > > development skills - it's just patchmonkeying the things which maintainers
> > > send him.
> >
> > I would disagree, and I suspect anyone else who has maintained a distro
> > stable kernel would likewise. It needs one or more people who know who
> > to ask about stuff, are careful, have a good grounding in bug spotting,
> > races, common mistakes and know roughly how all the kernel works.
> > Maintainers aren't very good at it in general and they don't see
> > overlaps between areas very well.
>
>
> That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
> proposed.
>
> Am I right?  All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
> reasonably serious problems.  Almost without exception it would consist of
> backports.

"thru-ports":  commit to linux-2.6.x.y and get Linus to pull.

	Jeff



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/