From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268439AbUHXWC2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:02:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268388AbUHXWC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:02:27 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:680 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268421AbUHXWA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:00:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:58:50 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 Message-Id: <20040824145850.243b6d94.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <412BB7AE.7050804@zytor.com> References: <412BB7AE.7050804@zytor.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:48:30 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: | Linus Torvalds wrote: | > Ok, | > tons of patches merged, with me being away for a week, and also the | > normal pent-up patch demand after any stable kernel. Special thanks as | > always to Andrew, who synced up 200+ patches (he's attributed in the | > sign-off lines, but not in the appended shortlog, so I just wanted to | > point that out). | > | > Changes all over: arm, ppc, sparc, acpi, i2c, usb, fbcon, ntfs, xfs, nfs, | > cpufreq, agp, sata, network drivers - you name it. Most of the changes are | > fairly small, but there's a lot of them. | > | > Administrative trivia, and one thing I agonized over: should I make the | > patches relative to 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1? I decided that since there is | > nothing that says that a "basic bug-fix" releases for a previous release | > might not happen _after_ we've done a -rc release for the next version, I | > can't sanely do patches against a bugfix release. | > | > Thus the 2.6.9-rc1 patch is against plain 2.6.8. If you have 2.6.8.1, you | > need to undo the .1 patch, and apply the big one. BK users and tar-balls | > don't see that particular confusion, of course ;) | > | | The kernel.org scripts I am pretty sure will assume 2.6.9-rc1 are against | 2.6.8, not 2.6.8.1. Hey, I'll chime in and make it unanimous. Maybe easier scripting like Matt said, but definitely makes more sense (less surprise) for users IMO. -- ~Randy