From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261334AbTDXVnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:43:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264515AbTDXVns (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:43:48 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:60802 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261334AbTDXVna (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:43:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:41:07 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Message-ID: <20030424214107.GH808@phunnypharm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:44:39PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > I guess Ben's mega patch (and yes, I also consider it a megapatch for > > -rc) has to be applied. I just mailed him asking about the possibility > > of getting only fixes in and not the cleanups, but I guess that might be a > > bit hard to do _today_. Right Ben ? > > > > And about the sweet complaints about -pre timing, I will release -pre's > > each damn week for .22. > > > > *!@#!&*. > > If I might offer a course of action, if you put thing which are *fixes* in > the bk releases, and hold *changes* for the next -pre, it might allow > people to grab bk's to fix the quickly caught things in a new pre, without > being hit with major changes which might decrease stability. > > Clearly any pre is a risk, but there always seem to be errors of the "XXX > doesn't compile because of typo" type. That way Alan could put all new IDE > code in each -pre and Andre and others could put fixes in the bk's until > it worked. => JOKING!! <== but you get the idea. > > I'd love to see this in 2.5 as well, just to encourage people to use it! You do realize that the -pre's are pulled from bk, right? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/