Re: Wanted: hotfixes for -mm kernels

[Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>]

* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> [2006-02-02 16:45:52 -0500]:

> On 2/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:00 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > Most -mm kernels have small but critical bugs that are found shortly
> > > after release.  Patches for these are posted on linux-kernel but
> > > they aren't made available on kernel.org until the next -mm release.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to create a hotfix/ directory for each -mm
> > > release and put those patches there?  A README could explain that
> > > the fixes are untested.  At least people reading the files could
> > > see an issue exists even if they're not brave enough to try the
> > > patch. :)
> >
> > I doubt it - mm is an experimental kernel, hotfixes only make sense for
> > production stuff.  It moves too fast.
> >
> > A better question is what does -mm give you that mainline does not, that
> > causes you to want to "stabilize" a specific -mm version?
> >
> 
> Some people just run -mm so the hotfixes/* would help them to get
> their boxes running until the next -mm without having to hunt through
> LKML for bugs already reported/fixed. This will allow better testing
> coverage because most obvious bugs are caught almost immediately and
> then people can continue using -mm to find more stuff.

... that's just why I so often wish to have a -git tree, Andrew. ;)

Marc