From: "Les Mikesell" lesmikesell@gmail.com
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:53, jdow wrote:
Rahul, I suspect it would be a good idea if they visited this list from time to time to get a sense of the "buzz". That is what I do with the LKML list. (Which is what convinces me that 2.6 is a development kernel rather than a stable kernel, even number notwithstanding. 2.6.15 hardly resembles 2.6.12 in much of any regard. And 16's going to be farther afield. It seems like Linus has lost control. But that's another rant, or should be. {^_-}
You make it sound like that's a surprise - or a change. Serious problems were still being fixed up though about X.X.20 of the previous kernel "stable" releases.
Oddly, I see a basic difference between making extreme changes in the modules in the Kernel and fixing bugs. The changes are big enough that they introduce their own serious bugs from time to time. (Latest is NFS crawling at about 1/4 speed. One thing I looked at closely was the changes to NTP operation. I have tools for setting up a GPS reference here. But the kernel's been changing that area faster than I can keep up. So I've not been motivated to get that GPS antenna outside yet.)
{^_^} Joanne