Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761376AbYBEV0w (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758922AbYBEV0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:42 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:41035 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758806AbYBEV0l (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:26:41 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 PST." <47A8BDF3.6080609@linux.intel.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080203171634.58ab668b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <10779.1202230436@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <47A89664.8020407@linux.intel.com> <3289.1202240894@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <47A8BDF3.6080609@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202246727_3253P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:25:27 -0500 Message-ID: <9255.1202246727@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1202246727_3253P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 PST, Arjan van de Ven said: > > A bugfix? > > yes it was a really painful bugfix, but still. I'm not saying that it wasn't needed, it *was* a busticated API. > I'll repeat the question. What would waiting for an -mm release have bought for this bugfix? > Answer: nothing more than what was done on Linus git. Just wondering what happened to the "large changes should percolate in -mm for a bit beforehand" concept. We've seen a lot of patchsets that totalled up to a *lot* less intrusiveness get pushed off with "This needs to cook in -mm for a while". --==_Exmh_1202246727_3253P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD4DBQFHqNRHcC3lWbTT17ARAgA6AKCvBbnhHjMoc0JVGyBwviY6ubQgrACY9D0Z 7gJ5KwQNLB6ZYo8BqNkBWw== =abiS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202246727_3253P-- -- 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/