Re: Why no linux-2.6.8.2? (was Re: new dev model)

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:46:46PM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> > Why has linux 2.6.8 been abandoned at version 2.6.8.1?
> > 
> > There exist fixes that could go into 2.6.8.2:
> > 
> >         process start time doesn't match system time
> >         FDDI frame doesn't allow 802.3 hwtype
> >         NFS server using XFS filesystem on SMP machine oopses
> > 
> > I'm sure there are more...
> > 
> > So why is 2.6.8.1 a "dead branch?"
> 
> It was an emergency "paperbag" release number.
> 
> All paperbag releases are made from dead branches.


Thanks to BitKeeper no properly-tagged branch is ever dead.

Anyone could make a 2.6.8.2 if they so chose.

	Jeff



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