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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.1415] Documentation: add documentation summary for
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Linus
Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> In fact, this whole discussion has shown one thing: people still think
> that "bug fix" somehow automatically means that it's appropriate after the
> merge window. That's simply not so.

And that really was the goal of this documentation extension patch, to
clarify that fact. I'm sure Jonathan can do a better job than what I
am trying though, with the added benefit he won't create words out of
thin air :)

  Luis