On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: [...] > > > How important is the stable releases? Are maintainers willing to do a > > > little more work now to make sure their subsystems work fine in older > > > kernels? This isn't the same stable as it was 8 years ago. > > > > And that annoys the hell out of some Linux companies who feel that the > > stable kernels compete with them. So people working for those companies > > might not get as much help with doing any additional work for stable > > kernel releases (this is not just idle gossip, I've heard it directly > > from management's mouths.) > > Hmm, this is new to me. Really, I thought the whole point of the stable > releases was to help Linux companies. [...] I also heard some managers decided their kernel source packages should have all the patches squashed together to make them harder to cherry- pick... could it have been the same company? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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