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SubjectRe: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle
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
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