Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05T21:16:07Z

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of
> > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know
> > whether something should be eventually used or not.
>
> Wait a minute - why would stuff going into 2.6.x.y be "experimental"
> stuff? Wasn't stability the whole point of this tree?

The point being that _before_ a patch gets accepted, it's in that "limbo"
state, waiting for people to veto it or say "yes".

That limbo state is not well done with BK.

Linus