Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, greg@kroah.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
       davem@davemloft.net,
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On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 05:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Its irrelevant. Most of the "must fix" items are security. They don't
have a convenient testing life cycle. Many of the others are things that
need a prompt fix and the same problem applies.

After all if it was in -mm then someone knew about it and would have
said "this has to make base before its released"

> 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. 

And occasionally it will be wrong. It happens. Linus released 2.4.15,
I've released -ac patches and stuff that needed immediate "oh duh, try
the next one"
results. The important thing is that there is a base 'stable' release
that is almost always stable. That is as good as you'll get.

Alan

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