Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:34:54 -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:
>
>  > 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.

This means that for patches which didn't come through -mm, their first
exposure in a public tree will be when they pop up in our "most stable"
tree.  That's backwards.

However it should be manageable, as long as linux-release is constrained to
obviously-correct and its-no-more-broken-now-than-it-used-to-be patches. 
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