Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:04:14 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, greg@kroah.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
       davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
>  > proposed.
>  > 
>  > Am I right?  All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
>  > reasonably serious problems.  Almost without exception it would consist of
>  > backports.
> 
>  "thru-ports":  commit to linux-2.6.x.y and get Linus to pull.

But a subset of these fixes (such as Olaf's ppc raid6 fix) are
not-for-Linus.

Otherwise I guess it'll work - we can try it and see.

Can we get a commits-list running for linux-release please?

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