Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757596AbYFIC1D (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:27:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755535AbYFIC0w (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:26:52 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:32849 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755121AbYFIC0v (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:26:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080608.192651.193722134.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeff@garzik.org Cc: jacliburn@bellsouth.net, w@1wt.eu, pupilla@hotmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/50] 2.6.25.6 -stable review From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <484C3C13.7020609@garzik.org> References: <20080608.071051.212882594.davem@davemloft.net> <20080608103835.0c0b1e83@osprey.hogchain.net> <484C3C13.7020609@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 970 Lines: 23 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:07:47 -0400 > Jay Cliburn wrote: > > David's admonition tells me I'm doing it wrong, and that I should > > submit the stable patch to Jeff as well. Am I right? > > I usually encourage a more-parallel process where you simply email > stable@kernel.org with the upstream commit id of the change(s) in question. Right, and if Jeff wants to work things that way for the networking drivers that's fine. Personally, I like to make sure some time passes between when a fix goes into Linus's tree and when I push it into -stable because time is often what shakes out the last remaining problems introduced by some change no matter how seeming obvious the patch is. -- 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/