linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Exception handling fixes for v4.5

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Message-ID: <yq17fhmcpzt.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:00:22 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
Cc:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Exception handling fixes for v4.5

>>>>> "Finn" == Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au> writes:

Finn,

>> This is a pretty big lump of changes for a 4.5 bug fix!

Finn> Please keep in mind that these fixes are all rework of the changes
Finn> I made in -rc1. So this submission is 2 files changed, 118
Finn> insertions(+), 148 deletions(-) which is all rework of the
Finn> previous submission, which was 18 files changed, 2940
Finn> insertions(+), 3688 deletions(-)

I am well aware of and appreciate the huge amount of work you have done.

My concern is merely that Linus is going to get pretty upset with such a
big delta this late in the 4.5 cycle. By comparison, our other fixes at
this time are in the 1-5 line bucket!

I think putting the fixes into 4.6 and tagging them for stable is a
better (less emperor penguin wrath-inducing) approach.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering