Hi all, Given that I had to just revert a patch in the recent stable releases that didn't get enough time to "bake" in Linus's tree (or in -next), I figured it was worth discussing some possible changes with how "fast" I pick up patches for stable releases. So, how about this proposal: - I will wait for a -rc to come out with the patch in it before putting it into a stable release, unless: - the maintainer ACKs it, or sends it directly (like DaveM does for networking patches) - I have seen enough discussion about a patch to show that it really does fix something / is good / doesn't cause problems. - obviously safe, i.e. "add a device id" type thing. Given that we have -rc releases every week, except for the initial -rc1 release, I don't think this will really cause any major delays. Also, now that we are about to head into my busy "travel season", odds are, I'll be at least a week behind anyway, so this would probably start happening without an "official" change. It's been a boring summer, I've been able to keep up with the stable stuff really easily, causing problems like this :) Objections? Comments? thanks, greg k-h -- 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