Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 09 Nov 2003 14:05:11 -0500 |
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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? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |