From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268344AbUHXVvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:51:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268359AbUHXVvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:51:47 -0400 Received: from 209-128-98-078.bayarea.net ([209.128.98.78]:653 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268344AbUHXVsm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:48:42 -0400 Message-ID: <412BB7AE.7050804@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:48:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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