Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm mergeplans)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 12:39:44 EST


> > But distros can easily add the device id to their kernel if needed, it
> > isn't something that the -stable tree shoud be accepting. Otherwise, we
> > will be swamped with those types of patches...
> >
>
> Oh sure, leave the distros swamped with them instead. :)
>
> And they all have to do it separately, meaning they don't stay in sync
> and they duplicate each other's work...

Well they *don't* have to work that separately. They could set up some
shared tree which would look suspiciously like what Greg is doing but
with the ID updates.... ;)
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