Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > My assumption would be that once 2.6.9 is released, it's not uber-stable
> > > immediately ... so it'd be nice to keep at least one minor rev back
> > > going on the bugfix stream (eg 2.6.8.X) .... for people who want an
> > > uber-stable kernel. Doing more than 1 back would indeed seem
> > > counter-productive.
> >
> > In this case it would make more sense to get 2.6.9.1 released as quickly
> > as possible instead of trying to fix old releases.
>
> Think about a user who can't risk moving to 2.6.9.1.
> [S]he wants to use 2.6.8.n+1 which have only one more fix.

Then that user can apply the single fix for the problem he's interested in.
People are doing that with whatever old (= not the latest) kernel they're
running right now.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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