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From: John Mylchreest <johnm@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] New genpatches numbering scheme
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:44:43
Message-Id: 20060214104506.GD30428@getafix.willow.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-kernel] New genpatches numbering scheme by Daniel Drake
1 On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:41:14PM +0000, Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote:
2 > FIXES
3 > =====
4 > 1000-1400 linux-stable
5 > 1400-1500 linux-stable queue
6 > 1500-1600 architecture-related
7 > 1600-1700 security
8 > 1700-1800 mm/scheduling/misc
9 > 1800-1900 filesystems
10 > 1900-2000 networking core
11 > 2000-2100 storage core
12 > 2100-2000 power management (acpi, apm)
13 > 2200-2300 bus (usb, ieee1394, pci, pcmcia, ...)
14 > 2300-2400 network drivers
15 > 2400-2500 storage drivers
16 > 2500-2600 input
17 > 2600-2800 media (graphics, sound, tv)
18 > 2800-2900 other
19 > 2900-4000 reserved
20 >
21 > FEATURES
22 > ========
23 > 4000-4100 network
24 > 4100-4200 storage
25 > 4200-4300 graphics
26 > 4300-4400 filesystem
27 > 4400-4500 other
28
29 I assume the last number is exclusive ;)
30 I can't see anything wrong. Looks good.
31
32 For the best part the naming convention is trivial, afterall, its only
33 really the patch order that matters - which is likely why the original
34 lasted so long :)
35
36 I would maybe suggest making the security patch size that little bit bigger
37 (hell, we have the room) and shrink linux-stable a little bit. This is
38 directly relating to what we spoke about a while ago re: maintaining
39 aging genpatches. This isn't vital though.
40
41 Cheers for that.
42 - John
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