From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:29:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:28:57 -0400 Received: from host154.207-175-42.redhat.com ([207.175.42.154]:77 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:28:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:29:05 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexander Viro , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 Message-ID: <20010918152905.C8713@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:27:27AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:27:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't have that feeling. I'm happy with having partial merge with ugly > warts, if it means that you can get to the final stage _without_ having to > have all the problems fixed at one time. > > So now we have two _smaller_ merges that will fix two other issues, and > remove all the horridness from the original merge. A lot of us would be much happier if you just renamed 2.4.10pre11 to 2.5.1. =) Then we can backport things as they become stable. -ben