* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > Why should there be one? One of the things I like about this concept is > > that it's just a moving tree. There could be daily snapshots like the > > -bkX "releases" of Linus's tree, if there are changes from the day > > before. It means (hopefully) that no one will "wait for x.y.z.2 because > > that is really stable". > > Exactly. Th ewhole point of this tree is that there shouldn't be anything > questionable in it. All the patches are independent, and they are all > trivial and small. > > Which is not to say there couldn't be regressions even from trivial and > small patches, and yes, there will be an outcry when there is, but we're > talking minimizing the risk, not making it impossible.
OK. I was aniticpating people's request for an official 2.6.x.y release (since I've already had that request a bunch). But as long as the snapshot can be easily identified in the unlikely case of a regression, then snapshot could be good enough. -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
