[ofa-general] ipoib crashes with 2.6.27-rc7

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Sep 22 14:44:38 PDT 2008


 > I haven't try the same scheme with 2.6.26, as for the bug-being-a-regression
 > criteria, can you clarify the current policy, are all post (say) -rc2/3
 > patches should be only fixes to regressions, or is it anything post rc1? is
 > this a new convention?

Linus has been being stricter about what we merge late in the release
cycle lately.  Definitely if we are going to add a patch after rc7, it
better be a very important fix that we're very sure of.

 - R.



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