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.
That is what I wrote later in my mail anyways (did you really read it completely?:) See also the followup discussion with Russel and Arjan. In general stable specific fixes should be the exception, not the rule though. -Andi - 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/
