Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T05:36:56Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Am I right? All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
> > reasonably serious problems. Almost without exception it would consist of
> > backports.
>
> "thru-ports": commit to linux-2.6.x.y and get Linus to pull.

This means that for patches which didn't come through -mm, their first
exposure in a public tree will be when they pop up in our "most stable"
tree. That's backwards.

However it should be manageable, as long as linux-release is constrained to
obviously-correct and its-no-more-broken-now-than-it-used-to-be patches.