Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:12:39 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.25.10 |
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On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:54:22AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement > > and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically > > was fixed: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10 > > > > If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes, > > please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know. > > Sometimes I have to backport bugfixes to older kernels. In that case > it's important to know in which kernel version the bug was introduced. > This info is included for some of the bugfix patches in the changelog, > but not for all.
That's because sometimes no one digs through the code to find this out. I would recommend using 'git blame' to determine this if it is something that you need to have.
But for the most part, -stable doesn't really care about older kernel versions, we have to draw the line somewhere, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
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