From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:09:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:09:03 -0500 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:62482 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:08:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3A577C1D.F57B2DD0@candelatech.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 13:12:13 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy (what about the -AC series?) In-Reply-To: <937neu$p95$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@pop.zip.com.au Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I thought I'd mention the policy for 2.4.x patches so that nobody gets > confused about these things. In some cases people seem to think that > "since 2.4.x is out now, we can relax, go party, and generally goof > off". > > Not so. Sounds like a perfectly valid argument to me. Since Alan Cox's branch seems to take on some of the more experimental stuff, perhaps it could be used as an outlet for the pent-up patches untill 2.5 comes out? Alan, could you elucidate your policy for accepting patches into the -ac series? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) http://www.candelatech.com Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL) http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/