Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle

Pavel Machek
2007-05-27T21:01:04Z

Hi!

> >Well, in 2.6.73.1 we add 'trivial' one line to add new
> >pci id, and in
> >2.6.73.2 we have data corruption, because that driver
> >needed some
> >quirk we did not know about...?
>
> False argument. -stable should only be merging patches
> that are already upstream, and known.

Well, then we should have some more requirements. 'Has been in
-rc2-git1 for 8 hours' is technically upstream, but it does not make
the patch 'known-enough' for stable. 'Have been in three release
candidates' seems like a rule we want here.
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html