Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T06:21:23Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Neither solution is acceptable, really. I suspect the idea of pulling
> > linux-release into mainline won't work very well, and that making it a
> > backport tree would be more practical.
>
> Maybe you're right, but I tend to think that "quick, get that fix out
> immediately" fixes will appear before more substantial fixes. That is
> certainly the way things have worked up until now.
>
> For the cases that we care about, putting that into linux-release and
> then pulling would seem more appropriate.
>
> Remember, the linux-release tree for each release will slow down, and
> eventually die off, as we progress towards the next release (where the
> linux-2.6.x.y-1 tree will indeed die).

Yup. But anyway, there's no point in overdesigning all this. Let's suck
it and see. If it doesn't work we can populate linux-release by some other
means. The downstream users of linux-release won't see any change as a
result of that.