linux-kernel - Re: Missing patch from stable [3/7]

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Message-Id: <1212936622.4020.236.camel@tucsk>
Date:	Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:50:22 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Missing patch from stable [3/7]

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 14:29 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> Well, you know the implications of leaving these known bugs open more than
> me. If you think some of them are really not needed, I'm fine with this,
> but some definitely fix real bugs (judging by the code and the comments).

Yeah.  Perhaps there should also be a rule, that -stable patches for
EXPERIMENTAL stuff (like ecryptfs) are automatically rejected.  And then
they wouldn't increase the workload for the people collecting/reviewing
the stable series.

Thanks,
Miklos


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