Re: Linux 2.4.16-pre1

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
>>>Are these going to appear on the front page of kernel.org?
>>>
>>They have to...
>>
>>I'm sure hpa will do that as soon as he has time to...
>>
> 
> I also decided that the suggestion to move the "testing" subdirectory down
> to below the kernel that the directory is for is a good idea.
> 
> So I moved all the 2.5.x testing stuff to kernel/v2.5/testing, leaving the
> old kernel/testing directory basically orphaned.
> 
> Marcelo could either take over the old directory (which will make his
> pre-patches show up on kernel.org automatically), or preferably just do
> the same thing, and make the v2.4 test patches in v2.4/testing (which will
> also require support from the site admin, who is probably overworked as-is
> with the RAID failures ;)
> 
> 			Linus
> 

I like this idea much better than Marcelo's idea, which requires yet a 
whole slew of ad hoc knowledge in the scripts -- there is just way too 
much of that already.  I'll try to implement this.

To summarize:

I'll expect v2.5 prepatches in v2.5/testing; v2.4 prepatches in 
v2.4/testing, and nothing else...

	-hpa