Re: starting with 2.7

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> 
> What's wrong in keeping the release management as is now plus
> introducing a 2.6.X.Y series of kernels ?
> 
> In short:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109882220123966&w=2

Currently (2.6.10), there would have been 11 such branches.

If a security vulnerability was found today, this meant backporting and 
applying the patch to 11 different kernel versions, the oldest one being 
more than one year old.

With more 2.6 versions, there would be even more branches, and the 
oldest ones becoming more and more different from the current codebase.

You could at some point start dropping the oldest branches, but this 
would mean a migration to a more recent branch for all users of this 
branch.

OTOH, if you migrated relatively late at 2.4.17 to the 2.4 branch, this 
branch is still actively maintained today, more than 3 years later.

> Best,
> Paolo Ciarrocchi

cu
Adrian

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