On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:57:56 CST, Paul Larson said:
> Since Linus hasn't chimed in yet, I'm guessing that's exactly what
> happened. I'm not trying to improve his workflow, but rather the
> workflow of anyone who might be interested in getting more involved in
> 2.5 testing.
What would help a lot of people (certainly me, at least), would be if
somebody kept a well-publicized "already known errata" list along with
(possibly unofficial) work-around patches. Something along the line of:
compile fails in drivers/widget/fooby.c with error:
undefined structure member 'blat' in line 1149.
To fix: apply <this patch>
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:11:17 +0000 (GMT), John Bradford said:
> You can always use 2.5.X-BK1 to get the fixes that we would probably
> have been in 2.5.X if Linus had done more extensive testing on it
> before releasing it.
Almost but not quite what I meant - unless -BK1 is reserved for after-release
whoops and doesn't contain "new stuff for release N+1". If -BK1 is only
bugfixes, that would be good.
-- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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