Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:55:21 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2
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> I fully agree, and firmly believe that the current stabilisation works
> incredibly well for shaking out bugs.  My problem is that it doesn't
> work for stabilising features.  Either we have to get far more people
> doing feature integration testing before the merge window, or we have to
> accept feature updates after the merge window (for existing features
> that are having stability issues).

The other alternative is that if Linus won't take updates you ask him to
revert bsg so that you don't get a half baked merge as a result of this.
I'm not sure that is a good path to follow either however.

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