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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.11.1


    On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Russell King wrote:
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    > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of
    > > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know
    > > whether something should be eventually used or not.
    >
    > Wait a minute - why would stuff going into 2.6.x.y be "experimental"
    > stuff? Wasn't stability the whole point of this tree?

    The point being that _before_ a patch gets accepted, it's in that "limbo"
    state, waiting for people to veto it or say "yes".

    That limbo state is not well done with BK.

    Linus
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