linux-kernel - Re: bug-introducing patches (or: -rc cycles suck)

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Date:   Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:38:26 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "julia.lawall@...6.fr" <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug-introducing patches (or: -rc cycles suck)

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:58:30PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Working on AUTOSEL, it became even more obvious to me how difficult it is for a patch to get a proper review. Maintainers found it difficult to keep up with the upstream work for their subsystem, and reviewing additional -stable patches put even more load on them which some suggested would be more than what they can handle.
> 

<snip>

/me hands Sasha some extra '\n' characters

This is great info.  Can you reformat your email to be sane and send
this to the ksummit discuss mailing list?  I think the audience there
might be a bit more receptive than the noise that is lkml at times :)

thanks,

greg k-h