Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:44:10 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.32.27+drm33.12 |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:33:58PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: > I am announcing the release of the 2.6.32.27+drm33.12 stable tree.
I'm sorry, but that combination is anything but "stable".
> This tree is based on 2.6.32 and generally has all of the stable updates > applied. Except those to the DRM subsystem, which was based on 2.6.33 and > took updates from that upstream stable as long as that existed. It will > continue to add patches to the DRM subsystem as long as they are valid > according to the stable update rules (Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt).
You didn't follow that rule for the drm tree, so please, don't call this a "stable" tree at all.
Also note the new name for longterm kernel releases, "longterm", not "stable".
> DRM patches for this tree should be sent to kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com.
Why make developers do extra work for this old kernel tree? That's not very nice.
> This release contains patches from upstream 2.6.32.27, but dropped any patches > to the DRM subsystem.
That doesn't seem wise, but hey, good luck with it, that's a frankenkernel if I've ever seen one...
greg k-h
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