Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 22:51:21 EST


Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
> > proposed.
> >
> > Am I right? All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
> > reasonably serious problems. Almost without exception it would consist of
> > backports.
>
> "thru-ports": commit to linux-2.6.x.y and get Linus to pull.

But a subset of these fixes (such as Olaf's ppc raid6 fix) are
not-for-Linus.

Otherwise I guess it'll work - we can try it and see.

Can we get a commits-list running for linux-release please?

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