Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc1

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:31:53PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 6/29/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Anyway, I really don't want to drag out 2.6.13 as long as 2.6.12 took, and
> > we don't have any reason to anyway, so let's try to see if we can calm
> > things down again, and people who are thinking about writing new code
> > might think about spending some quality time looking at the existing code
> > and patches instead.
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> 
> That sounds like a really good idea. If 2.6.13 could get out the door
> fairly quickly and be the result of everyone saying "let's make this a
> rock solid kernel and shake all the bugs out" that would be great..  A
> sort of 2.6.12 on stabilizers ;)
> I know I'll be doing my bit to fix some of the minor bits.

I don't think the combination of an almost 3MB diff vs 2.6.12 and
a fairly quick release is going to end up being a rock solid kernel. =)

But I hope I'm wrong.


Regards: David
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