Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:11:02 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org,
       torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.2
Message-ID: <20050309111102.GA30119@elf.ucw.cz>
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On St 09-03-05 09:52:46, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release.  If consensus arrives
> >that this patch should be against the 2.6.11 tree, it will be done that
> >way in the future.
> 
> IMHO it sould be against 2.6.11 and not 2.6.11.1, like -rc's that are'nt 
> againt
> the last -rc but against 2.6.x.

You expect people to go through all 2.6.11.1, 2.6.11.2, ... . That
means .11.2 should be relative to .11.1, because otherwise people will
have to revert (ugly). And you want people to track -stable kernels as
fast as possible.

So Greg did it right.
								Pavel
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