From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.
Date: 9 Mar 2005 20:30:34 +0100
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:30:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309193033.GA17918@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110391244.28860.208.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:00:45PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > - It must be accepted to mainline.
>
> Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API
> involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must
> never happen is people accepting that fix as long term.
>
> How about
>
> - It must be accepted to mainline, or the accepted mainline patch be
> deemed too complex or risky to backport and thus a simple obvious
> alternative fix applied to stable ONLY.
That is what I wrote later in my mail anyways (did you really read it completely?:) See also the followup discussion with Russel and Arjan.
In general stable specific fixes should be the exception, not the rule though.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 7:28 [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work Greg KH
2005-03-09 9:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 10:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 10:17 ` Russell King
2005-03-09 10:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 10:32 ` Russell King
2005-03-09 10:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 14:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-09 18:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-09 18:29 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 18:29 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-09 19:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-03-09 18:28 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-09 19:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 20:16 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-09 22:49 ` Russell King
2005-03-09 18:34 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 19:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 20:03 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 20:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 10:00 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-10 10:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-11 1:49 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-11 4:58 ` Chris Friesen
2005-03-11 7:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10 16:43 ` Greg KH
2005-03-10 17:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-10 17:31 ` Greg KH
2005-03-10 18:25 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-11 10:13 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-10 17:43 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-10 17:51 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-10 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 0:10 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-11 2:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
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