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Embedded Linux Flag VersionEmbedded Linux Flag VersionPosted Nov 4, 2010 23:02 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)Parent article: Embedded Linux Flag Version
I would not bet my money on 2.6.35, which has been practically declared past its time by Greg KH already. Wait for something that is going to see -stable updates - see what SLES11SP2/SLES12 will have.
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Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 4, 2010 23:28 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
For embedded developers, Greg declaring that .35 is almost past its time (meaning that he'll stop changing it) might be seen as a feature.
Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 5, 2010 2:03 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] Does rather make one wonder who the community developers are in the sentence:industry and community developers agree to work together to maintain a long-term stable branch of the flag version of the kernelIf that's not a reference to GregKH's stable branches, what is it a reference to?
Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 5, 2010 2:08 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
Greg doesn't need to be the only one maintaining a stable branch. He (and his employers) choose which ones he works to maintain, but he has been willing to hand over maintinance of older branches to other people in the past.
Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 5, 2010 1:08 UTC (Fri) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]
Some companies and projects are doing a good job of staying close to mainline, and the issue for them will be that 2.6.35 will indeed start to fall behind where they want to be, soon. For example, Google has been pushing hard to catch up to mainline, and although they will have a release based on 2.6.35, they probably won't stay there long. The same goes for other forward-moving projects that are staying close to mainline (MeeGo and Linaro).
However, for a large segment of the embedded industry, just getting different companies moved up to 2.6.35 (within 1 version of mainline), and synchronized on a single release, will be a really big improvement. At the summit, CE vendors had kernel versions spread all over the place between 2.6.11 and 2.6.32.
Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 5, 2010 2:23 UTC (Fri) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631) [Link]
This indeed is a great idea.
Embedded Linux Flag Version Posted Nov 5, 2010 6:28 UTC (Fri) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
We are indeed trying to chase mainline as fast as is feasible -- we typically freeze a month or two before a release, working against the most recent released mainline version at that point. We've been doing this since 2.6.16 or so, and are getting pretty good at it now.
I certainly understand that many people may have even longer stabilization cycles than we do, may depend on several sets of vendors to stabilize, etc. In that case agreeing on a "flag version" definitely makes a lot of sense.
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