Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:43:12 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday March 8, greg@kroah.com wrote:
> > So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going
> > to work that Chris and I have come up with.  Does anyone have any
> > problems/issues/questions with this?
> 
> One rule that I thought would make sense, but that I don't see listed
> is:
> 
>  - must fix a regression

That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall
under the:
	or some "oh, that's not good" issue
rule.

I didn't feel like being all lawyer-like and explicitly spelling out all
of the different kinds of bugs that we would be accepting patches for :)

So yes, I don't have a problem with patches to fix regressions.

thanks,

greg k-h
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