2.0 / 2.1 rev numbers

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 19:57:19 -0400

> I wonder why the "stable" version of the kernel (2.0) has had almost as
> many patches as the "devel" (2.1) version, and it's still full of problems?

You might be comparing 2.0's revisions compared to 1.2's. The codebase for 2.0
is much larger than 1.2 was and the chance for "one innocent change" to affect
a lot more subsystems than before is likely to happen. 2.0 is being updated
more actively than 1.2 ever was, so that is also another reason that 2.1 and
2.0 are almost in sync, revision number-wise.

So, I suppose it is all how you look at it.