Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1

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

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  tons of patches merged, with me being away for a week, and also the
> normal pent-up patch demand after any stable kernel. Special thanks as
> always to Andrew, who synced up 200+ patches (he's attributed in the
> sign-off lines, but not in the appended shortlog, so I just wanted to
> point that out).
> 
> Changes all over: arm, ppc, sparc, acpi, i2c, usb, fbcon, ntfs, xfs, nfs,
> cpufreq, agp, sata, network drivers - you name it. Most of the changes are
> fairly small, but there's a lot of them.
> 
> Administrative trivia, and one thing I agonized over: should I make the
> patches relative to 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1? I decided that since there is
> nothing that says that a "basic bug-fix" releases for a previous release
> might not happen _after_ we've done a -rc release for the next version, I
> can't sanely do patches against a bugfix release.
> 
> Thus the 2.6.9-rc1 patch is against plain 2.6.8. If you have 2.6.8.1, you
> need to undo the .1 patch, and apply the big one. BK users and tar-balls 
> don't see that particular confusion, of course ;)
> 

The kernel.org scripts I am pretty sure will assume 2.6.9-rc1 are against 
2.6.8, not 2.6.8.1.

	-hpa