Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261208AbVCESoI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:44:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261253AbVCESm7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:42:59 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:35307 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261216AbVCESiM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: <4229F9D4.8030608@osdl.org> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:26:28 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Sampson CC: Greg KH , Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree References: <20050304222146.GA1686@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 21 Adam Sampson wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > >> - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things >> marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, or a real security issue. > > > So a trivial patch that fixed a data corruption issue wouldn't be > accepted? > That's called a critical patch. -- ~Randy - 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/