[BALUG-Admin] Questions for Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel Maintainer)

[Jesse Zbikowski]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Mike Higashi <mhigashi@gmail.com> wrote:
>  How about a review of recent history, for example on why
>  the even/odd numbering for stable/development kernels
>  has been dropped, and an explanation of what the new
>  process is.

The even/odd numbering issue was pretty well resolved 3-4 years ago
with the conclusion that two wildly diverging development lines
(stable/development) is a Bad Idea.  Hopefully nobody is still
wondering why there's no 2.7.x.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/4100

I would be interested to hear Andrew talk about his own tree (-mm) and
possibly other important trees he pulls from.