Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:52:00 +0300 | Subject | Re: [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote: > On Apr 14 Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Of course, although the difference with the stable kernel would be >> very small if the only thing added is an extra rule for acceptance: >> "It reverts an earlier patch to 'stable'." > > It looks like a small difference on the surface, but it isn't. It would > mean "yes, we /do/ forward ports in -stable too in some cases".
How? There's a lot reverts in mainline, where do they come from? Are they forward ports from some ghost trees?
If you drop a patch from the stable review queue before it gets into a stable release, and then that patch is reverted from mainline, is that also a "forward port"?
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