Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262648AbVCEHLW (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 02:11:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262651AbVCEHLW (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 02:11:22 -0500 Received: from bama.hardrock.org ([68.146.16.251]:5536 "EHLO mail.hardrock.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262648AbVCEHLT (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 02:11:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:11:16 -0700 (MST) From: James Bourne X-X-Sender: jbourne@rio.clgy.hardrock.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1 In-Reply-To: <20050304215822.GA24843@havoc.gtf.org> Message-ID: References: <20050304175302.GA29289@kroah.com> <20050304124431.676fd7cf.akpm@osdl.org> <4228D43E.1040903@pobox.com> <20050304135113.68c50e13.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304215822.GA24843@havoc.gtf.org> 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: 1885 Lines: 52 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: ... > > > is this critical? > > > > Doubt it, unless the succeeding patches have a dependency on it. But the > > other patches have not been tested without this one being present. > > > > These patches have been in mm for four weeks, so it's probably OK from a > > stability POV to take them straight into linux-release. If they were > > fresher then the way to handle them would be to merge them into Linus's > > tree and backport in a couple of weeks time. > > Cool, fair enough. linux-release sounds fine. ok, 4 bits not just 2... Be frugal with the patches and don't take just *anything* that looks like a good fix. What you want is a more stable version, meaning less changes as time goes forward. I know it's the first couple days, but it looks like it could easily go the other way... Anyway, I hope this helps. James > > Jeff > > > > - > 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/ > > -- James Bourne | Email: jbourne@hardrock.org UNIX Systems Administration | WWW: http://www.hardrock.org Custom UNIX Programming | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "All you need's an occasional kick in the philosophy." Frank Herbert - 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/