Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761856AbWLJWqL (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:46:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761826AbWLJWqL (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:46:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:43743 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761856AbWLJWqJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:46:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:39:37 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Chris Wedgwood cc: Daniel Drake , Adrian Bunk , Sergio Monteiro Basto , Daniel Ritz , Jean Delvare , Bjorn Helgaas , Brice Goglin , "John W. Linville" , Bauke Jan Douma , Tomasz Koprowski , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16 In-Reply-To: <20061210223351.GA22878@tuatara.stupidest.org> Message-ID: References: <20061207132430.GF8963@stusta.de> <45782774.8060002@gentoo.org> <1165723779.334.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061210160053.GD10351@stusta.de> <457C345D.8030305@gentoo.org> <20061210223351.GA22878@tuatara.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 27 On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > If I remember right, it breaks Chris Wedgwood's box > > I'm not bothered about 2.6.16.x anymore, feel free to do whatever is > needed there. That's really not the point. What's the whole _reason_ for 2.6.x.y releases? They should be safe, and OBVIOUS. If there is a box that breaks with a 2.6.x.y release, then that .y release was clearly a mistake, and fundamentally broke the whole point of the stable tree. If you can't depend on the stable tree being a real improvement - regardless of what hw you are on - then the stable tree has lost all meaning, and you'd be better off just getting 2.6.x+1 instead. Linus - 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/