Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:20:54 +0200 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16.30-pre1 |
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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.
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.
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