Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:51:28 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [patch 00/67] 2.6.18-stable review |
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:35:22AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:42:44PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:03:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > And yes, we realize that this is a large number of patches, sorry... > > > > I number of these patches were cleanups, such as removing code betewen > > #if 0, removing header files from being exported, etc. Not bad > > things, but I wouldn't have thought it would have met the criteria for > > being added to -stable. Are you intentionally relaxing the criteria? > > The header file stuff was intentionally added, as it is good to have the > header files exported properly. Those were a large number of these > patches.
Indeed. I see this as just 'finishing the job' rather than fixing something that's busted though. That said, I was also carrying these in what will be our 2.6.18 based update kernel for FC5 (and what will be FC6) for the same reasons.
Dave
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