From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
        Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
        ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:45:47 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20130717150857.GA2291@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message
	of "Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:08:58 -0400")
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"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:

> Is having a flood of fixes in x.y.1 any worse than having to got to an
> -rc8 or an -rc9?

I think it's better to send less fixes to -rc8 or -rc9 and focus more on
testing. That way there should be less regressions in later stages of
-rc releases and especially in the final x.y.0 release.

Most of the time I don't even consider updating to the stable releases,
I just wait for the next .0 release from Linus. For this kind of
workflow there is a clear advantage of slowing down patch flow before
the release, better chances of not needing to update the kernel that
often.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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