Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:41:02 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa said:

> Say, we're now at 2.4.23-rc1 stage. This "rc" kernel would also be
> known as 2.4.24-pre1. The maintainer would apply "rc"-class fixes to
> both kernels, and other patches (which can't go to "rc" kernel) would
> be applied to 2.4.24-pre1 only.

Two kernels getting different patches... (consider the case of a security
patch that hits code that was already hit by a previous -preN-ony patch,
so two different diffs are needed for the two trees)

> - we would avoid a mess of having two separate trees, with different
>   fixes going in and out.

So I don't see how this follows?

Attachment: pgp00001.pgp
Description: PGP signature