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Kernel forking

Kernel forking

Posted Jan 6, 2005 16:45 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2005 by Duncan
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2005

I disagree on when we'll see a 2.7; if a feature is invasive enough to need 2.7, it'll probably be so invasive that syncing between 2.6 and 2.7 is very difficult. Anything else is likely to be developed in a -mm or -ac style branch, then merged back.


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