Re: Linux 2.6.16.30-pre1

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:20:54PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Lee,

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 22:49 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
I will not use 2.6.16.y with its current rules, for sure, and I doubt
any distribution will. Wasn't the whole point of 2.6.16.y to serve as
a common base between several distributions?

I would not expect distros to be interested in a 2.6 tree that does not
add support for new devices. Isn't new hardware support one of the main
areas where distros routinely get ahead of mainline?

It really depends on the distribution, and even more of the specific
product. I know for a fact that Suse has no interest in supporting
additional hardware in the saa7134 driver for SLES10, for example. I
suspect that distributions only backport hardware support when a
customer asks for it, and they have some in-house knowledge to do it
safely.

[ see my comment about distributions in the other email ]

And I'd expect distributions with some in-house knowledge to do at most
cherry picking from my tree.

My original understanding was that 2.6.16.y was meant to be a common
tree between different distributions and products, containing only the
unquestionable fixes - i.e. security, data corruption and other oopses,
in the -stable spirit - and then different distributions would add their
own patches on top of it as they see fit.

How do you define "unquestionable fixes"?

E.g. what if a distribution supports an external module, and a fix
requires changing the kernel ABI this module uses?

The users of my trees are mostly people using self-compiled kernels that
want security fixes but no regressions.

Jean Delvare

cu
Adrian

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