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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:11:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline On 07/11/2013 05:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > At least at one point in the past... > And at at least one *other* point in the past, Linus stated that "holding back anything with a Cc: stable waiting for the merge window is wrong". This would imply that the post-rc5-or-so policy and the stable policy are effectively the same. Now, "policy" is a big word, and Linus and the maintainers generally have exercised discretion here and I would think that a lot of it really depends on the trust relationship between Linus and maintainer, or between maintainer and submaintainer. I generally try to flag to Linus when I push something that he may consider questionable, and I very rarely get > Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back > changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions; > perhaps this would be a good topic to discuss at the Kernel Summit. I think it would, to the extent such a policy is needed and workable. I think there is a serious risk in getting to hung up on policy. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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