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

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Message-ID: <20080609171253.GI30402@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:12:53 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	stable@...nel.org, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Missing patch from stable [3/7]

* Miklos Szeredi (mszeredi@...e.cz) wrote:
> 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.

Both users and distros enable code marked EXPERIMENTAL.  It's not
that uncommon for code to get stuck in EXPERIMENTAL long after it's in
general use.

thanks,
-chris
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