From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
editors@newsforge.com, lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.16
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:58:47 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011127135847.A22859@bee.lk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011127083530.A13584@bee.lk> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111270551210.4079-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111270551210.4079-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:51:59AM -0200
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:51:59AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:30:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >
> > > final:
> > > - Fix 8139too oops (Philipp Matthias Hahn)
> >
> > Won't that be a good idea to keep the -final the same as the last -pre?
>
> That's basically what happened. This 8139too fix is
> ONE LINE, in a self-contained piece of code.
It is still not okey to include even _small_ changes, because it is hard to
define what small is. Although we are sure that is is going to break,
Murphey's laws may get in ...;)
So better have a _policy_ of not doing so.
Cheers,
Anuradha
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-26 12:30 Linux 2.4.16 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-26 14:31 ` Firewire hotplug Samuel Maftoul
2001-11-26 15:58 ` William Stearns
2001-11-26 16:55 ` Linux 2.4.16 Dominik Kubla
2001-11-27 2:35 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 2:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-27 2:56 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 9:57 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-27 7:51 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 7:58 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera [this message]
2001-11-27 8:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-27 8:26 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-11-27 8:45 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 10:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-28 13:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-29 2:44 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-29 3:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-29 4:09 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-29 12:38 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-29 13:50 ` Rik van Riel
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