linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

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Message-Id: <200812112112.05936.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:05 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

On Thursday, 11 of December 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Nothing overly exciting here. Lots of small things, mostly in drivers 
> (with some defconfig updates for m68k and mips making the diffs bigger). 
> 
> There's some uncomfortably big changes to the intel DRI code, but most of 
> that is all about fixes to the new i916 "GEM" code that is only used by 
> development X servers, and is a new feature, so it shouldn't be able to 
> cause regressions.
> 
> Perhaps more interesting is simply the release scheduling issue. I'm 
> getting slowly ready to do a real 2.6.28, but I don't think anybody really 
> wants the merge window to be around the holidays. So the question is 
> really whether to 
> 
>  (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas
> 
>      I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd 
>      get a more stable 2.6.28.
> 
> or
> 
>  (b) release in a week or two, but just allow for possibly extending the 
>      merge window due to people being drunk on eggnog..
> 
>      I like this because let's face it, we get more and better bug 
>      information after releases, and everything _should_ be ready for 
>      merging *before* the merge window anyway.

FWIW, I vote for this one.

Thanks,
Rafael
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