Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:17:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       chrisw@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of 
> > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know 
> > whether something should be eventually used or not.
> 
> Wait a minute - why would stuff going into 2.6.x.y be "experimental"
> stuff?  Wasn't stability the whole point of this tree?

The point being that _before_ a patch gets accepted, it's in that "limbo" 
state, waiting for people to veto it or say "yes".

That limbo state is not well done with BK. 

		Linus
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