Re: ADI Blackfin patch for kernel 2.6.14

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:40:05AM +0800, Luke Yang wrote:
> On 11/14/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > The process is like maintaining any other part of the kernel:
> > > >   - Try to make sure it works on all releases (harder to do with a full
> > > >     arch, I know, but not impossible.)
> > >
> > >   Does this include all the rc releases? and the 2.6.14.x releases?
> > >
> > > >   - keep it up to date with bugfixes and the such
> > >
> > >   So the process is: when kernel release a new version, we should
> > > update our arch related files to the new kernel, then send you the
> > > patch. Am I right?
> >
> > well the idea is that you fix things BEFORE the kernel is released for
> > final, so that the final releases work out of the box (well out of
> > kernel.org). This implies that you sort of track the git tree on a
> > regular basis, but at minimum look at the first -rc kernel.
> 
>   yep, that's our plan. And for the 2.6.14.1, 2.6.14.2... versions, do
> we have to follow every of them?

They should hopefully _not_ break anything, due to the small size of
those releases.  If they do, please let the stable team know.

thanks,

greg k-h