Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932322AbWBBV5O (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:57:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932323AbWBBV5N (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:57:13 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]:33235 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932321AbWBBV5M convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:57:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rIY/x+W0J+rkZ37FZePInGZjuEZCvsIo9VbhUit0q0iadjl1fPgeApFDue3kwqS1vLlEEgfKKunngv4YyDAdS4mdhVyIBduEFHWYHX7GxyvvSjpdoCMxsgPmhSO/TSEYGfX8yhdYQ5TiFWm85WMBk/SHevs+w5fv4EZ2kjH1AA4= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:57:10 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: Wanted: hotfixes for -mm kernels Cc: Lee Revell , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200602021502_MC3-1-B772-547@compuserve.com> <1138913633.15691.109.camel@mindpipe> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2100 Lines: 49 On 2/2/06, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On 2/2/06, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:00 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > > Most -mm kernels have small but critical bugs that are found shortly > > > > after release. Patches for these are posted on linux-kernel but > > > > they aren't made available on kernel.org until the next -mm release. > > > > > > > > Would it be possible to create a hotfix/ directory for each -mm > > > > release and put those patches there? A README could explain that > > > > the fixes are untested. At least people reading the files could > > > > see an issue exists even if they're not brave enough to try the > > > > patch. :) > > > > > > I doubt it - mm is an experimental kernel, hotfixes only make sense for > > > production stuff. It moves too fast. > > > > > > A better question is what does -mm give you that mainline does not, that > > > causes you to want to "stabilize" a specific -mm version? > > > > > > > Some people just run -mm so the hotfixes/* would help them to get > > their boxes running until the next -mm without having to hunt through > > LKML for bugs already reported/fixed. This will allow better testing > > coverage because most obvious bugs are caught almost immediately and > > then people can continue using -mm to find more stuff. > > Yep. I think it's a good idea, although it does move fast, like > Lee says. One can argue that it doesn't move fast enough - I am pulling from Linus into my working tree pretty much daily whereas -mm is static for about a week. SO with Linu's tree I'm getting fixes to abvious problems/regressions much faster. > I'd be willing to help if e.g. there was some place > where several of us could upload patches to. > That's a nice idea too. -- Dmitry - 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/