Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/Altivec

[Andrew Morton]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Neither solution is acceptable, really.  I suspect the idea of pulling
>  > linux-release into mainline won't work very well, and that making it a
>  > backport tree would be more practical.
> 
>  Maybe you're right, but I tend to think that "quick, get that fix out 
>  immediately" fixes will appear before more substantial fixes.  That is 
>  certainly the way things have worked up until now.
> 
>  For the cases that we care about, putting that into linux-release and 
>  then pulling would seem more appropriate.
> 
>  Remember, the linux-release tree for each release will slow down, and 
>  eventually die off, as we progress towards the next release (where the 
>  linux-2.6.x.y-1 tree will indeed die).

Yup.  But anyway, there's no point in overdesigning all this.  Let's suck
it and see.  If it doesn't work we can populate linux-release by some other
means.  The downstream users of linux-release won't see any change as a
result of that.

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