[RFC] netx: add support for reading and parsing <update> element

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Tue Aug 24 06:33:09 PDT 2010


On 08/24/2010 08:46 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 14:24 Thu 19 Aug     , Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>
>> Looks good. Please commit to 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 and HEAD.
>>
>> Note: The changes to honour these flags will be going in HEAD only, but
>> since attached patch does not affect functionality, we might as well put
>> it in all. The lesser differences to deal with, the better.
>>
>
> I don't think we shouldn't be adding chunks of new code to the release
> branches just so that patching is easier.
>

Personally, I agree.

> It's simplest to leave this in place now that it's committed and the
> new code is not invoked, but please keep release branch changes to bug
> fixes only in future.
>

I havent actually committed this changeset to any of the branches except 
HEAD yet. Actually, I dont think I will commit this to any other 
branches at all. The changeset does (or should do) nothing, so there is 
no point in backporting it.

Cheers,
Omair



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