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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A8BDF3.6080609@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3289.1202240894@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> I don't think it's a realistic expectation to delay every bugfix and arch patch until Andrew
>> gets around to releasing an -mm, not do I see the point of that, what would have been different?
> 
> A bugfix?

yes it was a really painful bugfix, but still.

I'll repeat the question. What would waiting for an -mm release have bought for this bugfix?
Answer: nothing more than what was done on Linus git.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04  1:16 2.6.24-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-04  3:55 ` 2.6.24-mm1 Build Faliure on pgtable_32.c Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-04  4:31   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-04  7:36 ` 2.6.24-mm1 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 16:22 ` [PATCH] 2.6.24-mm1 section type conflict cleanup Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-04 18:04   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-05  4:49     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-04 20:29 ` 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function 'reserve_bootmem' Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-02-04 22:40   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 13:00     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-05 13:25     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-02-04 21:56 ` 2.6.24-mm1: module params broken Hugh Dickins
2008-02-04 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05  0:06     ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-05  0:16       ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 22:23 ` 2.6.24-mm1 - build error, AMD MCE using Intel ifdef'd log function Zan Lynx
2008-02-04 23:10   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 22:32 ` 2.6.24-mm1 - Build failure at net/sched/cls_flow.c:598 Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-04 23:25   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05  7:24     ` Rami Rosen
2008-02-05 16:20 ` [-mm Patch] arch/um/kernel/mem.c: fix a shadowed variable WANG Cong
2008-02-05 16:25 ` [-mm Patch] arch/um/kernel/initrd.c: fix a missed conversion specifier WANG Cong
2008-02-05 16:59   ` Jeff Dike
2008-02-05 16:53 ` 2.6.24-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-05 17:01   ` 2.6.24-mm1 Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-05 19:48     ` 2.6.24-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-05 19:50       ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-02-05 21:25         ` 2.6.24-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-05 20:19       ` 2.6.24-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-06 11:13 ` 2.6.24-mm1 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-06 11:15   ` 2.6.24-mm1 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-06 11:19     ` 2.6.24-mm1 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-13 17:52 ` 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure Mel Gorman
2008-02-13 18:45   ` Mike Travis
2008-02-14 20:17     ` Mel Gorman
2008-02-14 20:41       ` Mike Travis
2008-02-15  2:02         ` Mel Gorman
2008-02-15 15:46           ` Mike Travis
2008-02-16 20:34           ` Mike Travis
2008-02-17  0:23           ` Mike Travis
2008-02-19 16:12             ` Mike Travis
2008-02-19 19:23               ` Mel Gorman
2008-02-19 19:29                 ` Mike Travis
2008-02-27  6:29                 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-27 14:37                   ` Mike Travis
2008-02-27 17:25                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-28 15:42                   ` Mel Gorman
2008-02-28 17:45                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-03 16:27                       ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-03 17:45                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-03 18:56                           ` Mel Gorman

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