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

[Horst von Brand]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 04:24:36PM +0100, M. wrote:

[...]

> > yeah but I would mean if there's a 6months release cycle like GNOME & co.
> > there would be more opportunities in different distros using the same
> > kernel like those distros do with GNOME & co. If they use the same
> > 'current' 6months kernel available in the 18/24 time window this will
> > lead to unified base kernel for every distro and those distro could
> > mantain it for years

> The kernel is unlike GNOME in so many different ways, there's just no
> way to compare their development cycles.

Gnome is a /collection/ of (mostly independent) programs, after a while
what program+version survives a stress test is decreed to be part of
version N + 1 to be released at the 6-month point; lather, rinse,
repeat. In that sense it is much more like a distribution (which also have
similar release cycles). The kernel is /one/ program, and large and complex
to boot.

> People remember, the kernel evolves organically.  We don't know what's
> going to be in the next 2 kernel releases just because we don't know
> what's going to show up, and what hardware is going to be released, and
> what kind of problems people are going to have, and what kind of
> proposed patches are going to work out.
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