From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjgT6-0000h7-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:46:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5IGjZeH001436; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:45:35 GMT Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5IGhtjV011265 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:43:55 GMT Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050618164415.UXI6745.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:44:15 +0100 Received: from zog.reactivated.net ([81.99.81.161]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050618164415.CUEA15401.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@zog.reactivated.net> for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:44:15 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4363F73938C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:04:00 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42B44F6F.80202@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:44:31 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050403) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-2.6.12 References: <42B3A17D.6090306@leetworks.com> <200506180050.13233.vapier@gentoo.org> <42B3A8A7.9060508@leetworks.com> <20050617230517.0e976362@enterprise.weeve.org> <42B3B94E.70204@gentoo.org> <42B3B965.1030804@leetworks.com> <42B3BEAE.40608@gentoo.org> <42B3F713.1000108@gentoo.org> <42B422E6.2090602@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42B422E6.2090602@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f82972ec-9b85-46fd-bc16-d5ffba4976f7 X-Archives-Hash: 8058b0bff6fdd0295bd286274983b95e Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > That said, we're not RedHat. We ship as MANY features as we can and let > the user decide. I agree that it is valuable to get reiser4 testing done > up front. Eventually - some people will use it. Last I checked "I think > $FOO is stupid" wasn't a valid closure code in bugzilla ;-) Then you have different views from the kernel project :) We and try and make our kernel (gentoo-sources) _more_ stable than the official Linux releases. We mainly stick to bug fixes decreed worthy by the upstream developers, etc. We never include patches when we know of problems that they will introduce. Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list