The imminent stable-version apocalypse
The imminent stable-version apocalypse
[Kernel] Posted Feb 5, 2021 15:14 UTC (Fri) by corbet
As has often been pointed out, the stable-kernel releases are meant to be stable; that means they should be even more averse to ABI breaks than mainline releases, if that is possible. This may be a hard promise to keep for the next set of stable kernels, though, for the most mundane of reasons: nobody thought that there would be more than 255 minor updates to any given kernel release.