Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy | | Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2001 19:33:22 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> rather spend the time _really_ beating on the patches that _would_ be a > big issue. Things like security (_especially_ remote attacks), outright > crashes, or just totally unusable systems because it can't see the > harddisk.
In which case the priority should be fixing all the broken LFS support.
> Yes, I know this is boring, and all I'm asking is for people to not make > it any harder for me than they have to. Think twice before sending me a > patch, and when you _do_ send me a patch, try to think like a release > manager and explain to me why the patch really makes sense to apply now.
Think of -ac as a way to get patches you need that everyone else might not need yet, and a way to filter stuff. Im happy to take sane stuff Linus doesn't (within reason) and propogate it on as (or more to the point if) it proves sane
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