Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2 missing features | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 18 Oct 1998 17:50:20 +0200 |
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In article <m0zUu0p-0007UDC@the-village.bc.nu>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >> What can we do to keep this from happening in the 2.3 to 2.4/3.0 conversion? >> Would it be reasonable to ask that there be patches for both stable and >> development before a feature is added to the stable branch?
> If we had a cvs log we could take the CVS branches from 2.0.29 or so > when 2.1.x was split off and merge the relevant forward changes. You'll > just have to hope Linus can remember everything or go through the patches > from 2.0.30 onwards checking stuff has been forward ported. I know the > /proc security patches are missing, but most of the other changes made in > 2.0.36 up to pre12 are in 2.1.x. Someone willing to backcheck over the > previous 2.0.x diffs would be great
In future it would be useful to adopt a policy to never accept changes for 2.0 unless 2.1 has the equivalent bug fix/change
-Andi
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