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Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:47 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add  support for AMD 10H and
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On Fri, 29 May 2009 11:12:15 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 07:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:43:34PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > I proposed for stable because I was using AMD 11H from last 6 months and
> > > I was missing temperature monitor badly because my earlier Laptop was
> > > broken by overheating. So I thought if it goes to stable then users will
> > > start getting benefit of it, but if you want that users should wait for
> > > another 2 years. Then it is OK ;-)
> > 
> > 2 years?  The next kernel release will be out in 3 months, we have a
> > very predictable release schedule.
> 
> I am sorry for being unclear. I meant for linux distros. Even one of the
> most active Fedora 10 is using vmlinuz-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 is
> almost 7 months behind the linus git. And another linux distro are still
> using 2.6.22 or so which are almost 2 years behind linus git.

Distributions are free to backport any patch they like to their kernel
tree, at any time.

-- 
Jean Delvare