Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05T04:35:12Z

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > > cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch
> > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch
> > > dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch
> > > ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch
> > > nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch
> > > nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch
> >
> > Unless it's crashing for people, stack usage is IMO a wanted-fix not
> > needed-fix.
>
> Sure. The patch is bog-obvious though.
>
> >
> > > nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch
> >
> > is this critical?
>
> Doubt it, unless the succeeding patches have a dependency on it. But the
> other patches have not been tested without this one being present.
>
>
> These patches have been in mm for four weeks, so it's probably OK from a
> stability POV to take them straight into linux-release. If they were
> fresher then the way to handle them would be to merge them into Linus's
> tree and backport in a couple of weeks time.

Cool, fair enough. linux-release sounds fine.

Jeff