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People want "stable" kernels with new features - they are impossiblePeople want "stable" kernels with new features - they are impossiblePosted May 3, 2008 22:36 UTC (Sat) by khim (guest, #9252)In reply to: Stable kernels 2.6.24.6 and 2.6.25.1 by vlx Parent article: Stable kernels 2.6.24.6 and 2.6.25.1
The question as always arises: why the kernel developers should bother? No new features and no new drivers mean no new development - and then you can just pick any old version of kernel. New drivers do mean new features (not always but quite often) and then we don't have "stable" kernel anymore... And new programs eventually just refuse to play with old stable kernels (inotify becomes more and more essential, for example) so you are starting to backport new features too... No, stable kernels were never particularly good solutions - they are changing too (count number of patches in latest update of 2.6.9 kernel from RHEL4, for example) but don't benefit from wide kernel development community...
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