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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:44:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
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> If the result is fixing things which then don't get fixed in mainline, as
> Adrian notes

That whole premise is flawed. The *rule* for the stable tree is that 
things don't get merged into the stable tree unless they are fixed in 
mainline already. 

We had that problem in the 2.4.x / 2.5.x split. I think we learnt our 
lesson.

			Linus