Where is the difffrence between doing a 2.6.x.y or 2.7.0

Where is the difffrence between doing a 2.6.x.y or 2.7.0

Posted Mar 9, 2005 22:01 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Where is the difffrence between doing a 2.6.x.y or 2.7.0 by dambacher
Parent article: Is the kernel development process broken?

The main difference is that 2.6.11.y will stop when 2.6.12 is released, whereas 2.4.x, 2.2.x, and 2.0.x continue to get updates. The reason is that 2.6.12 shouldn't be so different from 2.6.11 that it has major new problems that can't be resolved quickly in a 2.6.12.y, so people encountering a bug in 2.6.11.last can switch to 2.6.12.latest to resolve it; seemingly, people don't switch from 2.4.x to 2.6.11 as soon as they run into a bug, so using the minor number is not really a suitable extension of history to date.

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