Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2007 06:46:44 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle |
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Hi!
> >Well, in 2.6.73.1 we add 'trivial' one line to add new > >pci id, and in > >2.6.73.2 we have data corruption, because that driver > >needed some > >quirk we did not know about...? > > False argument. -stable should only be merging patches > that are already upstream, and known.
Well, then we should have some more requirements. 'Has been in -rc2-git1 for 8 hours' is technically upstream, but it does not make the patch 'known-enough' for stable. 'Have been in three release candidates' seems like a rule we want here. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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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