Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264774AbTFLHmy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:42:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264777AbTFLHmx (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:42:53 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:24997 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264774AbTFLHmx (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:42:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:56:18 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Michael Knigge Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Frank Cusack , lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc8 Message-ID: <20030612075618.GA31097@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030610165622.A17342@google.com> <20030612.6274686@knigge.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030612.6274686@knigge.local.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 26 On Thu, 12 June 2003 06:27:46 +0000, Michael Knigge wrote: > > imho the patch have to be included in 2.4.21 and (imho) it is a bad > practice to release a piece of software with a known bug (especially > if a fix is available). Is it good practice not to release, when the last version has even more known bugs? It's a trade-off and those are hard to get objectively correct. Personally, I still like the idea of a bugfix-only patch against 2.4.current [1], but in it's current state it just isn't taken serious by 90% of kernel.org kernel users. [1] http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/ J?rn -- Eighty percent of success is showing up. -- Woody Allen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/