On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 14 Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Of course, although the difference with the stable kernel would be >> very small if the only thing added is an extra rule for acceptance: >> "It reverts an earlier patch to 'stable'." > > It looks like a small difference on the surface, but it isn't. It would > mean "yes, we /do/ forward ports in -stable too in some cases". How? There's a lot reverts in mainline, where do they come from? Are they forward ports from some ghost trees? If you drop a patch from the stable review queue before it gets into a stable release, and then that patch is reverted from mainline, is that also a "forward port"? -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
