Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754019AbYGICad (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:30:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752205AbYGICaY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:30:24 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50875 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752078AbYGICaY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:30:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:12:39 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Bart Van Assche Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.10 Message-ID: <20080708041239.GB4099@suse.de> References: <20080703035807.GA8190@kroah.com> <20080703172914.GA11123@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1312 Lines: 30 On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:54:22AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement > > and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically > > was fixed: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10 > > > > If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes, > > please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know. > > Sometimes I have to backport bugfixes to older kernels. In that case > it's important to know in which kernel version the bug was introduced. > This info is included for some of the bugfix patches in the changelog, > but not for all. That's because sometimes no one digs through the code to find this out. I would recommend using 'git blame' to determine this if it is something that you need to have. But for the most part, -stable doesn't really care about older kernel versions, we have to draw the line somewhere, sorry. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/