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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday March 8, greg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going
> > to work that Chris and I have come up with.  Does anyone have any
> > problems/issues/questions with this?
> 
> One rule that I thought would make sense, but that I don't see listed
> is:
> 
>  - must fix a regression

That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall
under the:
	or some "oh, that's not good" issue
rule.

I didn't feel like being all lawyer-like and explicitly spelling out all
of the different kinds of bugs that we would be accepting patches for :)

So yes, I don't have a problem with patches to fix regressions.

thanks,

greg k-h
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