Re: Automating 2.3 patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:29:22 +0100 (BST)

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> This way, users could determine their own level of need/risk in testing =
> patches. And, Linus could use the statistics to determine when to =
> include a patch in the development kernel (same would be true of the =
> stable kernel too). Anybody could go the web site and look at the stats =
> for any patch to determine.

Then instead of 2 or 3 kernel trees with get N! limited by the number of
Linux users.

Not good.

If patches didnt interact it would be a wonderful idea, but they do, and
frequently in bizarre and horrible ways.

Alan

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