Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:40:33 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
       Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge
 plans)
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> > But distros can easily add the device id to their kernel if needed, it
> > isn't something that the -stable tree shoud be accepting.  Otherwise, we
> > will be swamped with those types of patches...
> > 
> 
> Oh sure, leave the distros swamped with them instead. :)
> 
> And they all have to do it separately, meaning they don't stay in sync
> and they duplicate each other's work...

Well they *don't* have to work that separately. They could set up some
shared tree which would look suspiciously like what Greg is doing but
with the ID updates.... ;)
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