linux-kernel - Re: stable cc's in linux -next was Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV

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Message-ID: <20101011183236.GA8704@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:32:36 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: stable cc's in linux -next was Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken
	on SGI UV

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:21:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > Not that I'm trying to say, "it could be worse", just that, "what could
> > be done better?"
> 
> I really don't know. I suspect that a certain amount of problems are
> always going to be inevitable. It's not like you can avoid regressions
> entirely, at least not unless you take the "it's dead, Jim" approach
> to stable.

Yeah, I do feel I keep some of the stable trees around longer then I
should, I've been working to keep that from happening any more in the
future.

thanks,

greg k-h
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