Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:29:43 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work. |
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* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: > > - It must be accepted to mainline. > > Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API > involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must > never happen is people accepting that fix as long term. > > How about > > - It must be accepted to mainline, or the accepted mainline patch be > deemed too complex or risky to backport and thus a simple obvious > alternative fix applied to stable ONLY.
Yes.
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