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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:12:42 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question On 11/10/2009 09:52 AM, Stefan Richter wrote: > More importantly, isn't this against the character of the -stable kernel > branches as _safe and simple_ hotfix branches? > > If a fix has a number of prerequisites which ar not -stable fixes > themselves, then it is more than a hint that this fix is not really well > suited for -stable. Alternately, it's conceivable that the prerequisites were not in-and-of-themselves candidates for -stable (maybe they didn't do anything by themselves) but when combined with the final commit the overall change is suitable for inclusion in -stable. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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