Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
Posted Jan 22, 2013 17:13 UTC (Tue) by bluss (guest, #47454)In reply to: Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released by arjan
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Posted Jan 22, 2013 17:17 UTC (Tue)
by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
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bypassing the upstream process is not a valid option.
this is to the level where this guy should be stripped from it's kernel.org official status
Posted Jan 22, 2013 17:25 UTC (Tue)
by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
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Posted Jan 22, 2013 18:33 UTC (Tue)
by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
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As such, I'm rather surprised at the *low* amount of non-upstream patches included...
Also, this isn't really something new, they have been doing this as a git branch of first 3.0 and later 3.4 since August 2011, they have just never bothered doing releases before (as everyone using it would be doing their own development in git on top of it anyway).
Posted Jan 22, 2013 18:57 UTC (Tue)
by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
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Posted Jan 22, 2013 19:31 UTC (Tue)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
Stable kernels should not add non-upstream ABI/APIs
Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released
The latter means userspace software gets written assuming "number X means Y"... which won't be the case in upstream, when number X gets reused.. say for AF_FOO instead of AF_DBUS.
And then you get an application compatibility nightmare.
Long-term support initiative 3.4 kernel released