Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:52:12 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.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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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> And is this really a problem?  The whole goal of the -stable tree was to
> accomidate the users who relied on kernel.org kernels, and wanted
> bugfixes and security updates.  It was not for new features or new
> hardware support.
> 
> If people feel we should revisit this goal, then that's fine, and I have
> no objection to that.  But until then, I think the rules that we have
> had in place for over the past 2 years should still remain in affect.

I have to agree.  I went back through my mbox and found vanishingly few
pci_id update patches.   So it's not clear there's even a big issue.

thanks,
-chris
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