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Where is the Linux kernel going?

linux-watch.com — Last week, at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit held at the Googleplex, some of Linux's top kernel developers discussed the state of the Linux kernel today, and where it might be going.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2...Still worrying about power management and having to tolerate snobby hardware makers that won't let the specs go public. Challenges ahead, sure, but at least development is getting quicker ( http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904052 ).

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    | "We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on
    | 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that
    | Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing
    | the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.
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    A couple of days ago, the high pace of commits had Linus worried about bugs.
  • Darkhacker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm not a kernel developer and maybe I'm a bit naive, but maybe they could support two versions of something in a single kernel? For example, when you compile a kernel you can enable or disable ACPI support, certain drivers, file systems, etc. Why not just have more than one version in the kernel that can be recompiled? Yes, it might make the kernel larger in file size, but it would only be a temporary solution. Vendors can compile the kernel with the stable version while developers and testers can recompile with the testing version. It would be similar to the odd/even development of the 2.4 branch but instead of an entire kernel, it would be only for certain features that are compiled in or not. Also if a feature (take ACPI for example) turns out to be buggy in a new release, they don't have to completely disable it or go back to an older kernel, they can just recompile the new kernel but use a stable version of ACPI. I'm not a Linux expert or anything but is this something achievable or is their a flaw with this idea?
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