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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
	Paul Hickey <paul@christianpatriot.us>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:37:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090120223707.GA5988@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120220810.GE17452@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:08:10PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> *sigh* I don't know, and don't really want to argue about it. ;-) People
> with backports are pretty much always going to get screwed. What's the
> use case for wireless-testing backports? bugfixes or new features? Could
> we improve the stable process to help wireless stuff get into 2.6.$(x-1)
> more easily so this won't happen in the future?

I don't think we want to start adding entire new drivers to the -stable
releases, which is what the wireless backport stuff is for, right?  That
would really be adding new features, which is not the goal.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-20 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-18 23:04 Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159 Paul Hickey
2009-01-19 19:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]   ` <1232404986.3641.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]     ` <20090120000336.GB4018@tesla>
     [not found]       ` <1232433738.3696.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2009-01-20 19:42         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-20 20:05           ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-01-20 20:13             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-20 20:16               ` Greg KH
     [not found]                 ` <20090120211630.GJ19581@tesla>
2009-01-20 22:08                   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-20 22:37                     ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-20 22:55                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-20 23:23                       ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-21  0:07                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-21  0:12                       ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-21  0:20                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-01-20 20:15             ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-20 21:12           ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-20 21:21             ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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