Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.17-stable review

[Kyle Moffett]

On Aug 22, 2006, at 09:49:29, John Stoffel wrote:
> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:46:16PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Any chance of a 2.6.17.10-rc1 rollup patch again, like you did  
> > > for .8?
>
> > Oops, forgot to do that, thanks for reminding me.  It can be found  
> > at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/stable/ 
> > patch-2.6.17.10-rc1.gz
>
> > And yes, it's not in the "main" v2.6 subdirectories, I'm not going  
> > to put it there anymore as it confuses too many scripts/people.
>
> So what if they're confused?  If they're official releases, blessed  
> with holy penguin pee, then shouldn't they be in the standard  
> release area?

Well, except for the fact that the pre-stable RC patches are neither  
"official" nor "releases".  They're just a combo rollup patch of all  
of the proposed stable patches before they've been batch reviewed on  
the LKML. (IOW: just for ease of testing)

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett


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