linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:55:01 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 15:35 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > So the problem is that maintainers are lazy.  They don't want to go
> > back for bug fixes that have "proven" themselves, and even if they
> > aren't critical bug fixes, they are things which a distro maintainer
> > or a stable kernel user might want (and sometimes stable uers are
> > uppity enough to expect subsystem maintainers to do this back
> > porting).  So subsystem maintainers then react by marking submits for
> > stable even though they really should soak for a release or two before
> > submitting them, since by marking them as submit, the commit gets
> > pushed to stable automatically --- albeit early.
> 
> Actually, this is a very good point. There were one or two stable
> patches I had pushed to linux-next that I wasn't too comfortable about.
> If the fix goes back to older trees, I rather have them stirring in
> linux-next and push it in the next merge window instead of pushing it to
> Linus and have it go to stable immediately.
> 
> Unless its a obvious fix, I tend to take about a month from the time I
> get a stable fix to the time I push it out. Making sure the stable fix
> doesn't introduce new bugs.

Indeed, which goes down to my comment somewhere else in this thread about
"Cc:stable" being used as a convenient marker for a bug fix. Let's simply
have a real marker and this should flow much smoother because end users
will ask "Dear stable maintainers, could we please merge this patch, I
need it".

Regards,
Willy

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