Re: Linux 2.6.21

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 13:44:53 EST




On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> If the result is fixing things which then don't get fixed in mainline, as
> Adrian notes

That whole premise is flawed. The *rule* for the stable tree is that
things don't get merged into the stable tree unless they are fixed in
mainline already.

We had that problem in the 2.4.x / 2.5.x split. I think we learnt our
lesson.

Linus
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