{"id":5,"date":"2006-04-24T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-04-24T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T22:36:30","slug":"2616-sensibleness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/2006\/04\/24\/2616-sensibleness\/","title":{"rendered":"2.6.16 sensibleness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a post on Ian McDonald&#8217;s <a title=\"http:\/\/imcdnzl.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/2616-craziness.html\" href=\"http:\/\/imcdnzl.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/2616-craziness.html\">Blog<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Is it me or is it crazy the pace of point releases at the moment? Do we really need four kernels in three days?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually it&#8217;s just you, and perhaps a few others, who for some reason still don&#8217;t see any point in the 2.6.x.y release of kernels.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t had 4 new kernels in 3 days. We&#8217;ve had 4 small patchsets covering regressions and security flaws. In each case, the patches are less than 100 lines of code, and are considered &#8220;simple&#8221;. The fact that there are 4 of them represents the high level of effort the stable tree maintainer, and people submitting patches, is putting into the kernel.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d much rather have 4 security releases in 3 days, then be told to wait until the next stable kernel. Or have to track down and find the patch myself, only to discover that it doesn&#8217;t apply cleanly. I&#8217;m capable of doing these things, but there are plenty of people who aren&#8217;t, and the 2.6.x.y stable series provides a great infrastructure for the announcement and dissemination of timely security and regression patches.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the chances are fairly good you&#8217;ll never need any of the patches in the stable series. What&#8217;s more, the 2.6.x.y patches all get rolled into 2.6.x+1 anyway, so you&#8217;ll get them all then. So feel free to ignore these &#8220;crazy&#8221; &#8220;kernel releases&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a post on Ian McDonald&#8217;s Blog: Is it me or is it crazy the pace of point releases at the moment? Do we really need four kernels in three days? Actually it&#8217;s just you, and perhaps a few others, who for some reason still don&#8217;t see any point in the 2.6.x.y release of kernels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}