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    SubjectRe: Wanted: hotfixes for -mm kernels
    On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

    > On 2/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
    > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:00 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
    > > > Most -mm kernels have small but critical bugs that are found shortly
    > > > after release. Patches for these are posted on linux-kernel but
    > > > they aren't made available on kernel.org until the next -mm release.
    > > >
    > > > Would it be possible to create a hotfix/ directory for each -mm
    > > > release and put those patches there? A README could explain that
    > > > the fixes are untested. At least people reading the files could
    > > > see an issue exists even if they're not brave enough to try the
    > > > patch. :)
    > >
    > > I doubt it - mm is an experimental kernel, hotfixes only make sense for
    > > production stuff. It moves too fast.
    > >
    > > A better question is what does -mm give you that mainline does not, that
    > > causes you to want to "stabilize" a specific -mm version?
    > >
    >
    > Some people just run -mm so the hotfixes/* would help them to get
    > their boxes running until the next -mm without having to hunt through
    > LKML for bugs already reported/fixed. This will allow better testing
    > coverage because most obvious bugs are caught almost immediately and
    > then people can continue using -mm to find more stuff.

    Yep. I think it's a good idea, although it does move fast, like
    Lee says. I'd be willing to help if e.g. there was some place
    where several of us could upload patches to.

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    ~Randy
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