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From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.13..
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:17:28 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011026081728.A14607@bee.lk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110232249090.1185-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011024114026.A14078@outpost.ds9a.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20011024114026.A14078@outpost.ds9a.nl>; from ahu@ds9a.nl on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:40:26AM +0200

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:40:26AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:52:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > final:
> >  - page write-out throttling
> >  - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci sound driver update (make Civ:CTP happy with it)
> >  - Alan Cox: i2o sync-up
> >  - Andrea Arcangeli: revert broken x86 smp_call_function patch
> >  - me: handle VM write load more gracefully. Merge parts of -aa VM
> 
> Why do we do the exciting VM things in 'final'? We are confusing people with
> pre-patches that are better than actual releases!

IMHO _nothing_ should be done for the final.  A better alternative is to name a
stable pre kernel as a final without changes.  In the current scenario, a final
kernel release is one which is _not_ tested.

Cheers,

Anuradha

-- 

Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.13)

The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to 
be fun...
	-- Linus Torvalds at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-26  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24  5:52 linux-2.4.13 Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24  7:39 ` linux-2.4.13 christophe barbe
2001-10-24  8:08   ` linux-2.4.13 Florian Weimer
2001-10-24  8:56 ` linux-2.4.13 Tim Nicholas
2001-10-25 10:29   ` linux-2.4.13 André Dahlqvist
2001-10-24  9:40 ` linux-2.4.13 bert hubert
2001-10-24 16:51   ` linux-2.4.13 Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 17:05     ` linux-2.4.13 high SWAP Andre Margis
2001-10-24 17:42       ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 16:44         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-24 18:20           ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 17:10             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-24 18:37               ` Andre Margis
2001-10-24 19:11                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 21:03                   ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 21:48                   ` toon
2001-10-24 22:08                     ` David S. Miller
2001-10-25 13:23               ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-26  2:17   ` Anuradha Ratnaweera [this message]
2001-10-26  5:44   ` linux-2.4.13 Stuart Young
2001-10-24 11:16 ` linux-2.4.13 Andy Pevy
2001-10-24 10:56   ` linux-2.4.13 Francois Romieu
2001-10-24 14:48 ` linux-2.4.13 Jan Rekorajski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-24 14:35 linux-2.4.13 Markus Döhr

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