Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264937AbTFLSab (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264938AbTFLSab (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:30:31 -0400 Received: from co239024-a.almel1.ov.home.nl ([217.120.226.100]:59268 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264937AbTFLS35 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:29:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:46:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Aschwin Marsman X-X-Sender: marsman@localhost.localdomain To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Michael Knigge , Marcelo Tosatti , Frank Cusack , lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc8 In-Reply-To: <1055405396.5785.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1485 Lines: 38 On 12 Jun 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:27, Michael Knigge wrote: > > > Hmmm... I don't want to tell you how you have to do your job, but this > > is a known error and (if I followed the postings here correctly) there > > was a fix posted. So why not include it in 2.4.22? > > If you wait with releases until every last and final bug is fixed, > you'll never get a release out, because there is always SOME bug > somewhere left, the kernel is just too big for that to not be the case. I agree. > It's a matter of priorities if a defect is a stopship or not, and it > seems the bug in question isn't according to the release managers > opinion. And Marcello already indicated that 2.4.22 will be released only a couple of weeks (2 months?) after 2.4.21. I think it's much more important to have 2.4.21 final, 2.4.20 was released end november 2002, and there will be (a lot of) security fixes since then in 2.4.21. Kind regards, Aschwin Marsman -- aYniK Software Solutions all You need is Knowledge Bedrijvenpark Twente 305 NL-7602 KL Almelo - the Netherlands P.O. box 134 NL-7600 AC Almelo - the Netherlands a.marsman@aYniK.com http://www.aYniK.com - 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/