Linux: Merging in 2.6.22

“Following the release of the 2.6.21 kernel Andrew Morton posted
a list of patches in his -mm kernel, summarizing for each his plans
as to whether or not they wil be pushed upstream for inclusion in
the upcoming 2.6.22 kernel. He noted, ‘the overall stability in
recent -mm’s was not sufficiently high and we ran out of time to
find all the bugs. I shouldn’t have merged all those patches last
week–they contained an exceptional amount of garbage. This all
means that more bugs than usual will probably leak into mainline,
and we’ll have to fix them there.’ He went on to add, ‘I’ve been
ducking most non-bugfix patches recently. I have ~200 feature and
cleanup patches queued for later consideration, so people who sent
those will be hearing from me eventually…'”

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