linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

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Message-ID: <51E08076.6040506@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:17:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

On 07/12/2013 12:53 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>> They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for
>> certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me.
> 
> Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a
> commit with a note, and have some automated process that monitors
> Linus's tree and when a commit makes it in, automate an email to stable
> with said commit.
> 

Didn't Linus just say he won't do that?

Either way it would seem to fail to accomplish the record-keeping aspect.

	-hpa


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