linux-kernel - Re: [ath9k-devel] [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review

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Message-ID: <20120416162710.GA24100@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:27:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	"ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net>,
	linux-wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review

Just one minor correction in this looney email thread:

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:53:22AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> v3.3.x on the other hand are *not* stable. They contain patches
> backported from v3.4, but nobody guarantees they will work. There was
> no v3.3.1-rc1, so the first time the patches compromising v3.3.1 were
> generally tested together is in v3.3.1, at which point if somebody
> finds issues, it's too late; bad patches are *not* going to be removed
> in v3.3.2.

Of course there was a 3.3.1-rc1, see the linux-kernel archives for the
announcemen and the individual patches.  kernel.org has the large patch
itself if you like that format instead.

greg k-h
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