Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

Greg KH
2005-03-10T04:34:05Z

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:31PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2.
> > It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk tree, and came from
> > the security team (hence the lack of the longer review cycle).
> >
> > It's available now in the normal kernel.org places:
> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.11.2.gz
> > which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release.
>
> Argh! @*#$&!!&!
>
> > If consensus arrives
> > that this patch should be against the 2.6.11 tree, it will be done that
> > way in the future.
>
> Consensus arrived back when 2.6.8.1 came out.

It did? So, what was it agreed to be? Any pointers to that agreement?

> Please, folks, there are automated tools that "know" about kernel
> release numbering and so on. Said tools broke with 2.6.11.1 because it
> wasn't in the same place that 2.6.8.1 was and now this breaks with all
> precedent by being an interdiff along a branch.

2.6.11.1 is now in the proper place, sorry for any inconvience that
caused. This happened yesterday.

> Fixing it in the future is too #*$%* late because you've now turned it
> into a special case.

No, I can always respin the patch, and re-release it if it's a problem.

thanks,

greg k-h