From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757310AbXD0VNN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:13:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757306AbXD0VNN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:13:13 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39346 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757310AbXD0VNL (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:13:11 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:14:32 -0400 Message-ID: <463267B8.4030604@tmr.com> References: <20070426040806.GJ3468@stusta.de> <20070426125802.GL3468@stusta.de> <4630E3C4.20003@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> If the result is fixing things which then don't get fixed in mainline, as >> Adrian notes > > That whole premise is flawed. The *rule* for the stable tree is that > things don't get merged into the stable tree unless they are fixed in > mainline already. > If Adrian cares to note which two regressions he had in mind in his previous post <20070426125802.GL3468@stusta.de> or what the exact timing was I'll let him continue this. > We had that problem in the 2.4.x / 2.5.x split. I think we learnt our > lesson. > I'd love to think that's the case. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot