Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:53803 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755649Ab2DMWxY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:53:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120413190819.9469.qmail@stuge.se> References: <20120412002927.GA23167@kroah.com> <20120412011313.GA23764@kroah.com> <20120412144626.GA14868@kroah.com> <20120413105746.10ffb120@stein> <20120413190819.9469.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:53:22 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20120414_005340_694756_DB45DBC9) Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review From: Felipe Contreras To: Felipe Contreras , Stefan Richter , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , Greg KH , linux-wireless Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Felipe Contreras wrote: >> I guess I should avoid the "stable" series then. > > I wish you had understood this much much sooner so that this nonsense > thread could have been avoided. > > If you want the very latest fixes then *obviously* you need to use > the most bleeding edge repo. (Linus') No, I don't want the latest fixes, I want the latest *stable* kernel. v3.3 is stable, v3.4-rcx are not. v3.4 would take months to cook, there will be several release candidates, and it won't be released until the known issues decrease to a reasonable level. v3.3.x on the other hand are *not* stable. They contain patches backported from v3.4, but nobody guarantees they will work. There was no v3.3.1-rc1, so the first time the patches compromising v3.3.1 were generally tested together is in v3.3.1, at which point if somebody finds issues, it's too late; bad patches are *not* going to be removed in v3.3.2. Once a tag is made, all the patches in it are dependent on the pace of the development of mainline (v3.4-rcx), which is definitely not stable, specially in the first release candidates. IOW, the "stable" branch tries to be stable up to a point, then, it becomes a testing ground for mainline, and a tracking device for certain mainline issues. -- Felipe Contreras