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
next prev parent 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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