On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:07, Tim Bird wrote: > It was noted at the summit that several CE companies and embedded > projects will be using (or are already using) 2.6.35 for upcoming > products or releases. This includes Sony, Google, Meego, and Linaro. On > behalf of the CE Linux Forum and a number of consumer electronics > companies, projects and community developers, we therefore declare > 2.6.35 as a flag version of the kernel for embedded use. Several > companies will be investing in development, integration and testing of > this version. Entities wanting to do business with those companies would > therefore be well-advised to make sure their hardware, drivers and > enhancements work well with this version of the kernel. wouldnt it make more sense to piggy back the extensive work going into the "stable" tree ? many of the points you raise after all are the entire founding point of it. plus, all the main distros form around that, are spending time working on that, is marked as supported for 2 or 3 years, and there is already infrastructure/framework/process in place (stable@xxxxxxxxxx). so instead of picking arbitrary versions (like 2.6.35) and needlessly replicating the huge work load, simply declare these stable trees as the "flag" versions. that means today it'd be 2.6.32.y. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
