> It is *my* conception of the stable branch, but I think that many people > have different expectations about what should be merged or not. For example > in old LTS branches, I used to merge what was relevant for servers only, We have lots of embeded systems running 2.6.32 kernel. And we encountered a critical bug, and we had to backported some patches which are not bug fixes to prevent the bug from happening. > because I saw no reason why an old kernel would be used on a laptop (eg: > 2.4). So I always skipped wifi, alsa, drm, etc... With 2.6.32, the Debian > kernel guys provided me with a lot of fixes in these areas, explaining > that these fixes addressed issues that their users were facing, and they > were perfectly right. It's just that I didn't expect this at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html