Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262169AbVCISgX (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:36:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262325AbVCISdi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:33:38 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58532 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262208AbVCIS3v (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:29:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:29:43 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Alan Cox Cc: Andi Kleen , Greg KH , Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work. Message-ID: <20050309182943.GV5389@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050309072833.GA18878@kroah.com> <1110391244.28860.208.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110391244.28860.208.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 21 * Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: > > - It must be accepted to mainline. > > Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API > involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must > never happen is people accepting that fix as long term. > > How about > > - It must be accepted to mainline, or the accepted mainline patch be > deemed too complex or risky to backport and thus a simple obvious > alternative fix applied to stable ONLY. Yes. - 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/