From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757107AbYIOWjk (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:39:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753537AbYIOWja (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:39:30 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46246 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753394AbYIOWj3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:39:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080915.153923.47782615.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeff@garzik.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080915223407.GB15421@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20080915212459.GE3994@havoc.gtf.org> <20080915.150746.24873255.davem@davemloft.net> <20080915223407.GB15421@havoc.gtf.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:34:07 -0400 > So if a small, easily-mergable fix for a major bug like an oops > appears on July 30, being strict to your plan has this fix waiting > until almost 2009 (2.6.28 release), a wait of over five months. > > That is not serving Linux users, our primary customers. I personally partly agree with you, but Linus put his foot down and I'm implementing the stated policy by doing the same.