From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932205AbWDRRdx (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:33:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932185AbWDRRdx (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:33:53 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:54688 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932181AbWDRRdw (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:33:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:06:10 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Fixes in the -stable tree, but not in mainline Message-ID: <20060418160610.GA10933@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060417212946.GA3118@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060417212946.GA3118@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:29:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Here are 5 patches that are in the -stable tree, yet not currently fixed > in your mainline tree. One of them is a security fix, so it probably > would be a good idea to get it into there :) I thought one of the requirements for accepting a patch into -stable was that it was already in mainline. Was this a change in policy that I missed, or just an oversight when we vetted these patches? Not that I have anything against these patches, just curious in the future if we should NACK patches proposed for -stable if we notice that they aren't yet in mainline. - Ted