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From: James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>
Cc: gene.heskett@verizon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Markus T." <markus@trippelsdorf.net>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:30:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415BB625.9000403@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415BA7D0.7070704@tequila.co.jp>

Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:

> | And thats one of the reasons I never dl the bz2 version.
>
> what has bz2 to do with that?

Some people believe bz2 to be buggy or otherwise less tolerant of 
corruption.  For most people these things don't seem to come up; I've 
never had problems with either despite frequent work with large 
compressed datasets.

> | You should have started with a fresh unpack of 2.6.8, not 2.6.8.1
> | I just checked my scrollback and there is no such error here.
>
> well its a bit confusing. 2.6.8.1 is the latest stable right, normaly
> patches are applied against the latest stable. Let's just hope this NFS
> fix is on the rc series if you have to apply against 2.6.8

Linus decided that patches will always be off the previous 
non-extraversion tarball.  Note that -rc3 is not relative to -rc2, so in 
that way its consistent.  The reason Linus gave is that such 
trivial-but-important bugfixes may come *after* the next version has 
releases or release cantidates, so this is the only sane way.  For 
example, if another tiny code bug motivated making a 2.6.8.2, the 
release cantidates shouldn't have to be rediffed.  Hopefully it makes 
sense now :)

 - Jim Bruce


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-30  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30  3:37 Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2004-09-30  4:53 ` Markus T.
2004-09-30  4:59   ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30  5:02   ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30  6:29     ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-09-30  7:30       ` James Bruce [this message]
2004-09-30  7:33         ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-09-30 15:53         ` Ingo Saitz
2004-09-30 20:27       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 21:55         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-01  0:42           ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01  3:30             ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01  3:34               ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01  4:01                 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01  4:05                   ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01  4:06                 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01  3:17           ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01  5:44             ` Christian Hesse
2004-09-30 18:58     ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-30 20:32       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30  5:03 ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30  5:14   ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-30  5:33     ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30  5:20   ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30  5:24     ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-30 20:41       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 14:13 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-09-30 19:03 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Bill Davidsen
2004-10-01 13:49 ` [PATCH] tty fall-out (was: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3) Geert Uytterhoeven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-30 15:38 Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Tim Krieglstein
     [not found] <2K07b-1Ez-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2Kh8e-5H2-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2KjMz-6E6-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <2Kmr3-9n-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-10-01 12:36       ` Pascal Schmidt

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