From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:54:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908205459.GC24557@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C55153.3070309@lwfinger.net>
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:22:43AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> Bug fixes, not new features, it's pretty simple :)
>
> Just bug fixes, or does it have to be a regression?
As I understand it, the rule is more like "bug fixes that are committed
in the linux-2.6 tree". Since Linus has become more strict about
requiring "regressions only" after the merge window, that effectively
enforces the "regressions only" rule on the -stable trees as well.
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 21:51 [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism Larry Finger
2008-09-06 22:40 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-08 5:31 ` Greg KH
2008-09-08 12:53 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-08 16:22 ` Larry Finger
2008-09-08 20:54 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-09-10 6:40 ` Otto Solares
2008-09-10 13:21 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-10 5:19 ` Greg KH
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