linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0.6

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Message-ID: <20111003212626.GA24927@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:26:26 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org, lwn@....net
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.6

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:11:12PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I'm announcing the release of the 3.0.6 kernel.
> > 
> > There was a build error in the radeon driver of the 3.0.5 kernel, so
> > this update is only needed if you have problems building that kernel.
> > 
> > The updated 3.0.y git tree can be found at (NOTE THE ADDRESS CHANGE):
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
> 
> That's missing the branch
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git 3.0.y

Oops, sorry, you are right.

> and while I can see the reason to make branches instead of separate
> trees, it's a nightmare when you want to get the 3.0.y tags because
> git insists on downloading the world and some more :(. It's just a one
> time thing, but nevertheless anoying as hell.

Yeah, but now we will not have a ton of different directories, one per
minor release, as it seemed that everyone ended up using the merged tree
anyway.

thanks,

greg k-h
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