Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263016AbVAFVU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:20:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262997AbVAFVSg (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:18:36 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:27302 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262969AbVAFVRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17:05 -0500 Message-ID: <41DDAB4C.4070305@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:19:08 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Barry K. Nathan" CC: Dave Jones , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] zap the ACPI shutdown bug (was Re: Reviving the concept of a stable series) References: <20050104182017.GE19167@redhat.com><20050104182017.GE19167@redhat.com> <20050106182336.GB2390@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20050106182336.GB2390@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 19 Barry K. Nathan wrote: > If the "backport" jokes don't make sense yet, consider this dilemma: If > a backported patch has not been committed upstream yet, then is it > really a backport? If a patch is against a later base and is rediffed to be against an earlier base, hopefully with side effects controlled, I think it's reasonable to call it a backport. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/