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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:29:12
Message-Id: 20130808222906.GA30314@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change by Tom Wijsman
1 On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:43:09AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote:
2 > On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 16:19:43 -0700
3 > Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:50:32AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
6 > > > Greg KH wrote:
7 > > > > See above for why it is not easy at all, and, why even if we do
8 > > > > know some fixes are security ones, we would not tag them as such
9 > > > > anyway.
10 > > >
11 > > > I think this supports the argument that the better kernel is always
12 > > > the one with the most fixes.
13 >
14 > Define "better"; because 3.10.0 has also been worse than the last 3.9
15 > release in some ways, despite it having more fixes than the last 3.9.
16
17 How was it "worse"? You don't seem to define that either :)
18
19 Yes, there are always going to be bugs and regressions, but as long as
20 we are fixing them more than we are making them, we are doing ok.
21
22 greg k-h

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>