Is the vger 2.2 kernel branch dead

[Neil Piercy]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Rini <trini at disparity.net>
To: Johnnie Peters <jpeters at phx.mcd.mot.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mmporter at home.com>; VALETTE Eric <valette at crf.canon.fr>;
<linuxppc-dev at lists.linuxppc.org>
Sent: 19 July 1999 23:47
Subject: Re: Is the vger 2.2 kernel branch dead


> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Johnnie Peters wrote:
>
> Try putting 'em vs 2.3.x.  I think right now the push is to fix all the
> little annoyances/problems that we're stuck w/ in 2.2.x and move forward
> in 2.3.x.  Then backport things later on.

I thought 2.2.x was meant to be the stable branch and 2.3.x the dev ?  It
seems strange to back-port fixes to known bugs in the stable branch from a
dev branch which is frequently broken - or do I misunderstand ? Stable
doesnt equal frozen in my book.

Neil
> ---
> Tom Rini (TR1265)
> http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/



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