From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755941Ab0JKSbv (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:31:51 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:39340 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755758Ab0JKSbu (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:31:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:32:36 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Airlie , linux-kernel , Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: stable cc's in linux -next was Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV Message-ID: <20101011183236.GA8704@kroah.com> References: <20101009235141.GB15564@kroah.com> <20101011173141.GB7116@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:21:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > Not that I'm trying to say, "it could be worse", just that, "what could > > be done better?" > > I really don't know. I suspect that a certain amount of problems are > always going to be inevitable. It's not like you can avoid regressions > entirely, at least not unless you take the "it's dead, Jim" approach > to stable. Yeah, I do feel I keep some of the stable trees around longer then I should, I've been working to keep that from happening any more in the future. thanks, greg k-h