On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:13:52PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> >
> > So what, the alternative is leave oprofile busted in 2.6.21.x even longer?
>
> stable is about backporting _well tested_ patches from mainline.
>
> If the stable request comes in from someone 5 minutes after the mainline
> submission
> I don't see how that testing should happen.
And how many people have picked up on the fact that the fix in 2.6.22rc is
busted
in the last week ?
Ie, we'd be waiting probably until after .22 goes out before we found out it's
still horked, and leaving .21.x busted for another three weeks.
If the functionality is completely busted in -stable, adding a patch that's
isolated to that component can't really make things much worse.
All we've done here is move the breakage.
Dave
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