From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:46:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070525064644.GC3989@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465563B4.5040301@garzik.org>
Hi!
> >Well, in 2.6.73.1 we add 'trivial' one line to add new
> >pci id, and in
> >2.6.73.2 we have data corruption, because that driver
> >needed some
> >quirk we did not know about...?
>
> False argument. -stable should only be merging patches
> that are already upstream, and known.
Well, then we should have some more requirements. 'Has been in
-rc2-git1 for 8 hours' is technically upstream, but it does not make
the patch 'known-enough' for stable. 'Have been in three release
candidates' seems like a rule we want here.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 18:14 [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-22 18:47 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 18:53 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-22 19:36 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 19:35 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 19:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-22 22:17 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 22:56 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-23 0:06 ` Greg KH
2007-05-24 1:20 ` David Hollis
2007-05-24 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 22:15 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 22:00 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-22 22:19 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 0:25 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-24 10:04 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-24 10:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-25 6:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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