Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa_at_zytor.com)
Date: 08/24/04

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    Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:48:30 -0700
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

    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.

            -hpa
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