> Ah, excuse me, please. I think missed the original subject of this
> message - I also subscribed this morning to the list and did not get the
> first one of this mails.
The conventional wisdom is that one should read a list for about a month
before posting to it. The archives of this list may be found at:
http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
> Of course, new hardware drivers could be best tested within a new
> kernel. I think, this differences the dev-kernels form the stable ones
> and of course it makes no sense to include very new drivers into an
> existing stable kernel release...
I agree with you, however, the convention in the Linux world has been to
develop and test new drivers in the development kernel and then to
back-port them to the "stable" kernel. This has the advantage of having
the latest "stable" kernel run on the latest hardware. The disadvantages
are that the "stable" kernels are not as stable as they could be and that
a lot of development time (particularly of Linus and Alan) are spent on a
dead-end rather than on something that will have continuing benefit which,
of course, slows down the development cycle.
> By the way: are my messages in HTML- or plaintext-format?
Plaintext.
M Carling
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