On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:00:45PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: > > - It must be accepted to mainline. > > Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API > involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must > never happen is people accepting that fix as long term. > > How about > > - It must be accepted to mainline, or the accepted mainline patch be > deemed too complex or risky to backport and thus a simple obvious > alternative fix applied to stable ONLY.
Yes, that's acceptable, I agree that Andi's statment is not ok (see the .1 release for 2 patches that were accepted in a "simple" way because the real fix was too complex.) I'll go update the document with this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
