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

[Jeff Garzik]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:31:39AM -0400, 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?"

Since it's in BitKeeper, it's not dead, it's just sleeping...

$ bk clone -ql -rv2.6.8.1 linux-2.6 linux-2.6.8-branch
$ cpcset <cset> linux-2.6 linux-2.6.8-branch
$ # repeat for each <cset> to apply
$ cd linux-2.6.8-branch
$ bk vi Makefile	# bump version
$ bk tag v2.6.8.2
$ # release 2.6.8.2 ...

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