Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-03T09:23:29Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> We have all these problems precisely because _nobody_ is saying "I'm
> only going to accept bug fixes". We _need_ some amount of release
> engineering. Right now we basically have none.

Sorry Jeff, but that's crap. Go look at the commits list. Every single
patch which has gone into the tree for the past two weeks is a bugfix, I
think.

The most recent non-fix I see is

ChangeSet 1.2044, 2005/02/22 20:44:37-05:00, romieu@fr.zoreil.com

[PATCH] r8169: removal of unused #define

Removal of unused #define

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

So pphhhfftt ;)

And the most recent non-trivial not-completely-a-bugfix patch I see
is "USB: Add ioctls to ub", from Feb 17. And even that's an outlier.