From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269086AbUHYBWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269091AbUHYBWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:22:12 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:9424 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269086AbUHYBVN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:21:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:20:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Daniel Andersen cc: "Sartorelli, Kevin" , fraga@abusar.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 In-Reply-To: <412BE5CC.8020303@linux-user.net> Message-ID: References: <4B2093FFC31B7A45862B62A376EA7176033C058D@mickey.topnz.ac.nz> <412BE5CC.8020303@linux-user.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Daniel Andersen wrote: > > Linus, is there a chance that > there will be a x.y.z.W release of an old kernel after the next x.y.Z.w > has been released and no longer is -rc? For example releasing a 2.6.8.2 > after 2.6.9 has been released and no longer is a 2.6.9-rcX. I don't see the point of such a release, so I'd say "no". Once we have a stable kernel, we make updates to _that_ one, not older ones. HOWEVER - there may well be exceptions to this brought on by distribution usage etc. For example, if some distribution ends up basing it's work on (say) 2.6.8.1, and we later find a bug, we might release a 2.6.8.2 even though we might have done a 2.6.9 or even 2.6.10 later - just as a way to support the existing users who take a long time to update. I consider that a pretty remote possibility, though. It's a lot more likely that the distribution-maker itself just does it's own patch on top of whatever release he started off with. Linus