Hi, On Saturday 23 August 2003 22:40, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I agree with releasing 2.8.1 soon. > > > > But why wait for 2.8.1 to submit a patch? > > I don't see anything in our changelog that looks critical. > > And I'd rather submit a patch based on a release > > that's seen several weeks' testing by users. > > > > So why not submit 2.8.0? > > Because 2.8.0 has bugs that have been fixed in 2.4.22-rc2, among some > others. The bugs are fixed in CVS, of course. > > The i2c CVS repository has no features added since 2.8.0, but it as a > few bugfixes, and some new IDs too. This is the reason why I believe > that submitting CVS (which at this point will have to be 2.8.1 for > convenience) instead of 2.8.0 is the right thing to do. The "not tested > by users" doesn't apply here IMHO because only few fixes have been made, > and they are under control AFAICS. > > > p.s. If you want me to look at Makefile problems please point > > me to the two reports. thanks. > > OK, here you are: > http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg03570.html > > And I can't find the second one... :( > I hope it'll cross my path again someday. the second one is the bug in i2c-sis630 that was fixed after 2.8.0 ...
