Re: Development tree, PLEASE?

[Michael Loftis]

--On January 20, 2006 2:03:52 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the
> equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel).
> Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large*
> chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the
> other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of
> cross-porting the patch.

Weeks is better than never, and still better than commercial vendors. ;)

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