Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Development tree, PLEASE? | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:20:51 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:10 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > --On January 20, 2006 2:03:52 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the > > equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel). > > Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large* > > chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the > > other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of > > cross-porting the patch. > > Weeks is better than never, and still better than commercial vendors. ;)
Especially if someone else is doing the work (- to get back to the point).
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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