linux-kernel - Re: Proposed stable release changes

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Message-ID: <20130821004201.GA5461@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:42:01 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, lwn@....net,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:11:11PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:17:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > It would be even better if you could find the time to push -rc releases
> > > into the stable repository before you accept patches into a stable branch.
> > 
> > What do you mean by this?
> >
> > The git tree?  I could do that, but when I have to drop a patch, it
> > would cause a mess if I had to always go forwards.
> > 
> That is not what I mean. I referred to the master branch of the stable
> repository, which you normally update to the most recent -rc when you
> publish a new -stable release.

Ah, ok, that makes sense.  I've updated it to 3.11-rc6 now.  Sorry for
the confusion.

greg k-h
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