On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:02:58 +0200
Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If the functionality is completely busted in -stable,
>
> It's not; e.g. it works great on my P4 testbox with 2.6.21
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't think stable is the right place for development.
I'd agree entirely with Dave - if you are applying a fix to something
that is currently totally broken which may make it work and which doesn't
affect any other bit of code then it goes into the stable tree.
Absolutes like "no xyz in the stable tree" don't work in the real world
with real users. Intelligence does.
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