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* Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc8
@ 2003-06-12  8:59 John Bradford
  2003-06-12 16:30 ` iain d broadfoot
  2003-06-13 11:29 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: John Bradford @ 2003-06-12  8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jw, linux-kernel

> Saying it is a bad idea to release a kernel with known bugs
> is like saying it is a bad idea to buy a computer when the
> price will be going down soon.  Would you care to delay
> 2.4.21 until next spring or would you rather get the fixes
> it contains today and have 2.4.22 with your pet fix on
> (hopefully) a scale of weeks?

A lot of the known bugs have fixes which appear to be OK, but haven't
really had enough testing to go in to a -final tree.  A lot of them
won't have been tested on SMP boxes for example.

What _would_ be nice would be to have a -$firstinitial$lastinitial
tree that opens up once we get in to the -rc phase - a kind of
'alternative rc' if you like, which collects all the patches that are
rejected for the official -rc tree.  That gives the maintainers one
last chance to prove the validity of their patch :-).

Or, to look at it other way, it would be effectively carrying on the
-pre phase during the -rc phase:

E.G. 2.4.22 development could look like this:

            2.4.21-final
                 |
                 |
                 V
            2.4.22-pre1
                 |
                 V
            2.4.22-pre2
                 |
                 V
               [snip]
                 |
                 V
            2.4.22-pre6
                 |
                 V
            2.4.22-pre7
                 |             All potential patches are declared
                 V            /    here.
     2.4.22-rc1-----2.4.22-jb1
         |               |
         V               V
     2.4.22-rc2     2.4.22-jb2<-Absolutely nothing new goes in from
         |               |      here on, just fixes.  If it breaks
         V               V      for more than 1 release, it's
       [snip]          [snip]   permenantly deleted from this -jb
         |               |      tree.
         V               V
     2.4.22-rc5     2.4.22-jb7
         |               |
         V               V
     2.4.22-rc6<-MERGE---/
         |         ^
         V         \--------------- Merge of whatever has survived
     2.4.22-rc7<-\                  -jb
         |        ---Delete
         V           anything that's broken in any way, I.E. it has
     2.4.22-final    to be perfect.

John.

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* Linux 2.4.21-rc8
@ 2003-06-10 22:06 Marcelo Tosatti
  2003-06-10 23:56 ` Frank Cusack
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2003-06-10 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml


Hi,

Here goes -rc8. If nothing really bad happens in 2 days, this becomes
final.


Summary of changes from v2.4.21-rc7 to v2.4.21-rc8
============================================

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>:
  o Fix ext2fs warning

Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
  o Fix shmctl(SHM_LOCK/UNLOCK) deadlock

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:
  o Backout erroneous kiobuf dcache flush changes Cset exclude: jsun@mvista.com|ChangeSet|20030425203656|60956
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre8
  o Cset exclude: geert@linux-m68k.org|ChangeSet|20030609201637|12385
  o Cset exclude: geert@linux-m68k.org|ChangeSet|20030609201907|11405
  o Remove bogus license for Rocket driver and change it to GPL


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2003-06-12  8:59 Linux 2.4.21-rc8 John Bradford
2003-06-12 16:30 ` iain d broadfoot
2003-06-13 11:29 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
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2003-06-10 22:06 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-06-10 23:56 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-11  0:10   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-06-11 21:15     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-06-12  6:27       ` Michael Knigge
2003-06-12  7:56         ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-12  8:09         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-12 18:46           ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-06-12  8:17         ` jw schultz
2003-06-11  4:39 ` Lucas Correia Villa Real
2003-06-12 22:23 ` Jerome Chantelauze
2003-06-13  9:31   ` Alan Cox

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