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

John Stoffel
2006-08-22T14:55:51Z

>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> writes:

Kyle> 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?

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

Doh. Never mind, excuse the egg on my face please...

John