[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews for this link. ]
“An interesting thread on the lkml began when Greg KH submitted
a patch for the 2.6 kernel saying, ‘Ok, to test out the new
development model, here’s a nice patch that simply removes the
devfs code.’ This was quickly followed with a comment by Oliver
Neukum who said, ‘may I point out that 2.6 is supposed to be a
_stable_ series?’ In one branch of the thread, the usefulness of
devfs was examined.“In another thread, dicussion was focused on this ‘new
development model.’ Jonathan Corbet explained that Linus Torvalds
and Andrew Morton were very happy with the results of their recent
teamwork, and saw no immediate pressure to fork a 2.7 development
branch. On the contrary, they intend to keep at it as they’ve been,
with things first going into Andrew’s -mm patchset for testing,
then eventually being merged into the mainline 2.6 kernel. Jonathan
went on to explain, ‘Andrew stated his willingness to consider, for
example, four-level page tables, MODULE_PARM removal, API changes,
and more. 2.7 will only be created when it becomes clear that there
are sufficient patches which are truly disruptive enough to require
it. When 2.7 *is* created, it could be highly experimental, and may
turn out to be a throwaway tree…'”