From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 10:10 pm

First things first, I would like to know what prompted the change from
2.4 to 2.6 kernels. I know that the change had to do with the
development version, the 2.5 tree and the massive amounts of patches
distros had to carry. Aside from this i think it was also the
scheduler changes that prompted the 2.6 version, but I don't know all
that much about it and any other comments about the change would be
great.

Second I wanted to talk about the linux 2.7.x kernel, whats in the
making or maybe even not started, that could prompt a change to a 2.7
version kernel, i know that a lot of good changes are going into the
kernel as part of the rcX kernels in the 2.6 version. Would we
continue to see 2.6 kernels until some big problem shows its head and
we all go "oh sh**" and then change something so massive that it
prompts the change or are we going to continue with the 2.6 tree. I
just want to get some information and peoples opinions on this, just
to see where things are headed.

-Stoyan G
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From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:22 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alan Cox, (Tue Jul 15, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jul 15, 2:04 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 12:22 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Wed Jul 16, 5:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Wed Jul 16, 2:55 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:30 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:17 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Jul 15, 10:24 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Tobias Brox, (Tue Jul 15, 12:36 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Byron Stanoszek, (Tue Jul 15, 10:07 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:14 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Wed Jul 16, 8:03 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Thu Jul 17, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Thu Jul 17, 4:02 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jul 15, 6:10 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:11 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 11:20 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 7:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:31 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:47 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jul 15, 4:43 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jul 17, 6:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Jul 16, 3:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:57 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Charles grey wolf Banas, (Tue Jul 15, 2:06 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Kasper Sandberg, (Tue Jul 15, 8:41 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alberto Gonzalez, (Tue Jul 15, 9:18 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Bernd Petrovitsch, (Tue Jul 15, 4:29 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 3:49 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 1:25 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Thu Jul 17, 3:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 4:21 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:00 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 3:30 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 5:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 7:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sat Jul 19, 4:52 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:49 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sun Jul 20, 4:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stefanos Harhalakis, (Sun Jul 20, 10:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Sat Jul 19, 4:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 19, 5:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Mon Jul 14, 11:55 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Jul 15, 1:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Tue Jul 15, 3:23 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Tue Jul 15, 2:40 am)