Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261589AbVCIVYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:24:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262443AbVCIVYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:24:07 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:11474 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261589AbVCIVVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:21:39 -0500 Message-ID: <422F68E0.90607@osdl.org> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:21:36 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Mackall CC: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.2 References: <20050309083923.GA20461@kroah.com> <20050309210631.GY3163@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20050309210631.GY3163@waste.org> 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: 1469 Lines: 43 Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2. >>It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk tree, and came from >>the security team (hence the lack of the longer review cycle). >> >>It's available now in the normal kernel.org places: >> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.11.2.gz >>which is a patch against the 2.6.11.1 release. > > > Argh! @*#$&!!&! I have to Argh this also (with Matt). >>If consensus arrives >>that this patch should be against the 2.6.11 tree, it will be done that >>way in the future. It would be much easier on users/testers to have to apply only one patch to base (2.6.11 e.g.) to get to 2.6.x.y (2.6.11.3 e.g.). One Patch File. Not three. > Consensus arrived back when 2.6.8.1 came out. > > Please, folks, there are automated tools that "know" about kernel > release numbering and so on. Said tools broke with 2.6.11.1 because it > wasn't in the same place that 2.6.8.1 was and now this breaks with all > precedent by being an interdiff along a branch. > > Fixing it in the future is too #*$%* late because you've now turned it > into a special case. -- ~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/