Re: questions for Linus

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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Greg..
>
> I came with these questions for Linus, hope you're kind enough to
> collect it and forward it to Linus in LinuxCon:
>
> 1. When will Linux 2.8.x start? and what are the plans regarding the
> development model? do we back in dual 2.4.x/2.5x era? personally I
> think that model is nice.... makes one really know which tree to
> follow when he needs stable one, or the devel one...

In fact Linux 2.8 won't be, it will be 3.0 : https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204

>
> 2. I saw task/process scheduler is one that under heavy concern
> lately, take a look on "200 line patch that does wonder" for example.
> I am thinking, we better really incorporate pluggable scheduler
> framework, that enable us to change scheduling core algorithm on the
> fly. What do you think?
>
> 3. I read somewhere that once Coverity helps Linux kernel developers
> found out unseen bugs using sophisticated static code analysis. Is
> that still happening now? Probably a good deal, squashing bugs in
> nowadays kernel's size is pretty hard, I could say..
>
> that's all for now Greg...thanks in advance...hopefully it's still make it..
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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