Andrew Morton wrote:
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 23:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
Ideally, the 2.6.x.y maintainer wouldn't need any particular kernel
development skills - it's just patchmonkeying the things which maintainers
send him.
I would disagree, and I suspect anyone else who has maintained a distro
stable kernel would likewise. It needs one or more people who know who
to ask about stuff, are careful, have a good grounding in bug spotting,
races, common mistakes and know roughly how all the kernel works.
Maintainers aren't very good at it in general and they don't see
overlaps between areas very well.
That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
proposed.
Am I right? All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
reasonably serious problems. Almost without exception it would consist of
backports.
"thru-ports": commit to linux-2.6.x.y and get Linus to pull.
Jeff
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