Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:11:16 -0700 (MST) | From | James Bourne <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.11.1 |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote: ... > > > is this critical? > > > > Doubt it, unless the succeeding patches have a dependency on it. But the > > other patches have not been tested without this one being present. > > > > These patches have been in mm for four weeks, so it's probably OK from a > > stability POV to take them straight into linux-release. If they were > > fresher then the way to handle them would be to merge them into Linus's > > tree and backport in a couple of weeks time. > > Cool, fair enough. linux-release sounds fine.
ok, 4 bits not just 2...
Be frugal with the patches and don't take just *anything* that looks like a good fix. What you want is a more stable version, meaning less changes as time goes forward. I know it's the first couple days, but it looks like it could easily go the other way...
Anyway, I hope this helps.
James
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