Re: starting with 2.7

[Horst von Brand]

Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@xxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I 
> want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously 
> annoy users and vendors.

If you are sooo attached to this, just keep a distribution for which
vendors give you drivers. But when the vendor decides the product has to
die to get you to buy the next "completely redone" (== minor fixes and
updates) version, you are stranded for good.

> I think new developments will force a 2.7 branch: when 2.6 feature set 
> stabilizes, people will keep more time testing a stable, relatively 
> static kernel base, finding bugs, instead of trying to keep up with 
> changes.

And when 2.7 opens, very few developers will tend 2.6; and as 2.7 diverges
from it, fewer and fewer fixes will find their way back. And so you finally
get a rock-stable (== unchanging) 2.6, but hopelessly out of date and thus
unfixable (if nothing else because there are no people around who remember
how it worked).
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