linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.17-stable review

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Message-ID: <17643.6779.897374.233638@stoffel.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:53:47 -0400
From:	"John Stoffel" <john@...ffel.org>
To:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
Cc:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.17-stable review

>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com> writes:

Kyle> On Aug 22, 2006, at 09:49:29, John Stoffel wrote:
>> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes:
>>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:46:16PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>> Any chance of a 2.6.17.10-rc1 rollup patch again, like you did  
>>>> for .8?
>> 
>>> Oops, forgot to do that, thanks for reminding me.  It can be found  
>>> at:
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/stable/ 
>>> patch-2.6.17.10-rc1.gz
>> 
>>> And yes, it's not in the "main" v2.6 subdirectories, I'm not going  
>>> to put it there anymore as it confuses too many scripts/people.
>> 
>> So what if they're confused?  If they're official releases, blessed  
>> with holy penguin pee, then shouldn't they be in the standard  
>> release area?

Kyle> Well, except for the fact that the pre-stable RC patches are
Kyle> neither "official" nor "releases".  They're just a combo rollup
Kyle> patch of all of the proposed stable patches before they've been
Kyle> batch reviewed on the LKML. (IOW: just for ease of testing)

Doh.  Never mind, excuse the egg on my face please...

John
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