Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.17-stable review

Kyle Moffett
2006-08-22T13:59:54Z

On Aug 22, 2006, at 09:49:29, John Stoffel wrote:
> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:46:16PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> Any chance of a 2.6.17.10-rc1 rollup patch again, like you did
>>> for .8?
>
>> Oops, forgot to do that, thanks for reminding me. It can be found
>> at:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/stable/
>> patch-2.6.17.10-rc1.gz
>
>> And yes, it's not in the "main" v2.6 subdirectories, I'm not going
>> to put it there anymore as it confuses too many scripts/people.
>
> So what if they're confused? If they're official releases, blessed
> with holy penguin pee, then shouldn't they be in the standard
> release area?

Well, except for the fact that the pre-stable RC patches are neither
"official" nor "releases". They're just a combo rollup patch of all
of the proposed stable patches before they've been batch reviewed on
the LKML. (IOW: just for ease of testing)

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett