Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:39:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] Fixes in the -stable tree, but not in mainline |
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Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:06:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:29:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Here are 5 patches that are in the -stable tree, yet not currently fixed > > > in your mainline tree. One of them is a security fix, so it probably > > > would be a good idea to get it into there :) > > > > I thought one of the requirements for accepting a patch into -stable > > was that it was already in mainline. Was this a change in policy that > > I missed, or just an oversight when we vetted these patches? > > > > Not that I have anything against these patches, just curious in the > > future if we should NACK patches proposed for -stable if we notice > > that they aren't yet in mainline. > > Sometimes some of these patches don't make it into Linus's tree because > they get lost in the shuffle (like the Kconfig one), or because they > were security issues that hit -stable first (like another one in there). > > Either way, yes, the rule is that it should be in mainline, or in the > pipe to get into mainline (as was the 5 in this patchset.) I just > wanted to make sure they made it into there, and didn't get lost. >
I had them queued up as well, but I'm being sluggish and Greg got there first. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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