Date: 9 Mar 2005 20:30:34 +0100
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:30:34 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:00:45PM +0000, Alan Cox 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.

That is what I wrote later in my mail anyways (did you really read it completely?:)  See also the followup discussion with Russel and Arjan.

In general stable specific fixes should be the exception, not the rule though.

-Andi
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