Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:58:50 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 |
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:48:30 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
| Linus Torvalds wrote: | > Ok, | > tons of patches merged, with me being away for a week, and also the | > normal pent-up patch demand after any stable kernel. Special thanks as | > always to Andrew, who synced up 200+ patches (he's attributed in the | > sign-off lines, but not in the appended shortlog, so I just wanted to | > point that out). | > | > Changes all over: arm, ppc, sparc, acpi, i2c, usb, fbcon, ntfs, xfs, nfs, | > cpufreq, agp, sata, network drivers - you name it. Most of the changes are | > fairly small, but there's a lot of them. | > | > Administrative trivia, and one thing I agonized over: should I make the | > patches relative to 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1? I decided that since there is | > nothing that says that a "basic bug-fix" releases for a previous release | > might not happen _after_ we've done a -rc release for the next version, I | > can't sanely do patches against a bugfix release. | > | > Thus the 2.6.9-rc1 patch is against plain 2.6.8. If you have 2.6.8.1, you | > need to undo the .1 patch, and apply the big one. BK users and tar-balls | > don't see that particular confusion, of course ;) | > | | The kernel.org scripts I am pretty sure will assume 2.6.9-rc1 are against | 2.6.8, not 2.6.8.1.
Hey, I'll chime in and make it unanimous. Maybe easier scripting like Matt said, but definitely makes more sense (less surprise) for users IMO.
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