Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Dec 03 2005 - 17:33:42 EST


On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 23:27 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> A kernel that calls itself stable CAN NOT remove
> features unless they had been critically broken from the beginning.

So in your opinion we can't add support for new hardware to a stable
kernel either because there's a chance of breaking something that worked
before, which brings us right back to "stable" meaning "no progress
allowed", which begs the question of why you want to upgrade at all.

Lee

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