Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

[Chris Wright]

* Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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.

Yes.

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